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to: Thees Peereboom
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2005-05-04 19:13:12
subject: Re: Growing Word files

From: Mike '/m' 


  :-)

On Wed, 04 May 2005 10:27:48 +0100, "Thees Peereboom"
 wrote:

>Mike,
>
>... and then use Atlantis to edit .
>
>- Thees Peereboom
>
>On Tue, 03 May 2005 17:02:09 -0400, Mike '/m'  wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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