From: "Gary Britt" 

Word has had the ability to open and I think save RTF format since the
1980's and Word For Dos.  Microsoft promoted it back then as a basis for
document interchange between different programs.  The last few years it has
really taken off because of various Web/Email uses of RTF format.

Gary
(Its hard to believe how long I've been using MS Word.  I still have
functioning copies of both MS Word 5 for Dos and MS Word 6 for Dos on my
computers.  Never really used 6 as I moved to windows finally.  I still
fire up Word 5 from time to time to because I had/have a specialized
medical/legal dictionary for Word 5.  So if I encounter a new legal/medical
term not in Word 2000 spell checker and my heavily customized custom.dic
file, I paste the word into Word 5, spell check it with the medical/legal
dictionary and then put the verified correct spelling as an addition to my
Word 2000 custom.dic file.)

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:8nli711bh9silqplhjng86nrlg7pfor8kj{at}4ax.com...
> 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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