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> ..... a document with
> several hundred images inserted as Windows Enhanced Metafiles, including
> Visio N/W diagrams, and a total size of a whopping 135 Mb.
Holy schnikees - that's HUGE! If you have the time (and the authority) I'd
advise you to convert the graphics to GIF files, and reduce the number of
colors in each image as much as possible.
If you have difficulty exracting the images, you can try taking screen
captures of them, and then saving the captures as GIFs. It's tedious as
hell, but will bring down the file size in a big way.
I don't find documents that large to be useful - so many machines can't
handle them, and trying to e-mail them is a nightmare. Good luck!
-Keith Cronin
Less is more. Particularly with Word.
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