From: Mike '/m' 

We don't do any fancy Word formatting.

Still, I wonder why this "feature" is in Word in the first place.

 /m

On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:06:38 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>I think that confirms what Ellen wrote.  If you open the document and do
>control-a, control-c and then open a new blank document and paste into it
>and then do a file save, it should give you the same savings as via the rtf
>route, but formatting might be better preserved with copy and paste.  RTF
>doesn't support everything that Word does formatting wise.
>
>Gary
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:3mpf71p6uk8g6oa54a5lf4idsn6aifa888{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> Save to .rtf seems to help.
>>
>>  /m
>>
>> On Tue, 03 May 2005 13:55:56 -0700, Ellen K.

>> wrote:
>>
>> >I think the "deleted" stuff is never actually
deleted, it's only tagged
>> >as such.
>> >
>> >Try copy and paste from the old one to a fresh one and modify that,
>> >instead of continuing to use the same one all the time.
>> >
>> >On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:23:12 -0400, Mike '/m'
 wrote in
>> >message :
>> >
>> >>Two of the Software Engineers who send me a status report
each week have
>> >>a problem with growing Word files.   They seem to grow by
about 20-30k
>> >>each week, even though the status report remains about the
same amount
>> >>of words.
>> >>
>> >>The sequence used to write the status report is to take last week's
>> >>report, modify the text with what is new and save as a new filename.
>> >>
>> >>I already checked and fast saves are disabled.  I am not
sure where else
>> >>to look.  One Engineer has Office XP, the other Office 2003.
>> >>
>> >>Any suggestions on how to control this problem?
>> >>
>> >> /m
>>
>

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