I noticed if one used Word 95 or RTF formats, that all of your changes will be saved as well. I experienced this kind of "growth" when a group of us were developing a project. We passed the manual around via e-mail, and 30K of text plus 2MB of screenshots grew to 15MB after it made the rounds. A file that size becomes very difficult to mail. George David Uhlman wrote: > > I just ran a test to check and this appears correct. > Without further investigation I suspect it may be that the screenshots in > the ms word document get stored as windows bitmap if you use the ms word 95 > format. I did not have the problem if I saved as msword 97/2000/xp format. I > am using openoffice 1.01. > > Sincerely, > David Uhlman > CTO 50km Inc. > office(877-571-7679) > mobile(602-770-9551) > fax(509-752-3882) > email(duhlman@50km.com) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charlie Bullen" > To: > Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 12:02 PM > Subject: Linux At Work > > Hello, yesterday at work, one of my co workers emailed me several MS word > documents created with MS word from Office XP Small Business edition. Each > file consisted of some text and 20 to 25 screen shots. File sizes ranging > from 450 to 800 K. I had no problem opening these in Open Office running > under linux. If I modified the files and saved them in Open Office's native > format, the file sizes remained about the same size. If I saved them in MS > Word format though, the file sizes went through the roof. For example the > 800K file went to about 25megs. > > I haven't noticed this happening with files that contain only text, so I > think it hassomething to do with how Open office is storing the graphics. > Any Idea how to reduce the file size back to a manageable level. I don't > know how open office stores the graphics but hopefully there is some way of > modifyng the fle type. The purpose of this is to create a training manual > which will be used first by windows users and then if all goes well, linux > users. > > Charlie > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss