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to: Mike `/m`
from: Thees Peereboom
date: 2005-05-04 10:27:48
subject: Re: Growing Word files

From: "Thees Peereboom" 

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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