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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:42 pm
by The Robman
fichmana2003 wrote:btw, I used word's 'Remove Hidden Data' wizzard on the .doc file, it went from 7.06MB to ~900KB... looking through the result I couldn't find any difference between them, but I might be wrong.
Thanks for the tip Alex, I was wondering why Word was making these files so big.

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:10 pm
by Nils_Ekberg
The Robman wrote:
fichmana2003 wrote:btw, I used word's 'Remove Hidden Data' wizzard on the .doc file, it went from 7.06MB to ~900KB... looking through the result I couldn't find any difference between them, but I might be wrong.
Thanks for the tip Alex, I was wondering why Word was making these files so big.
Word saves prior versions of the document within the file for recovery. One other way to clean the old invisible stuff out is to do a "save as"