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Paul Sparrow-Clarke wonders: <<I have an MS Word 2000 question. I have
created a 9-page manual. When I added photos to the document, which I
pasted into the document as "Picture" (supposedly the format that takes
up the least amount of space), the file size of the document ballooned
to over 6 megs.>>
First, you should never "paste" graphics into Word; always use the
"Insert-->Picture" menu choice. (I assume this is what you actually
used?) Second, you didn't mention how large the photos are.
High-quality photos can be megabyte-sized on their own, and the large
file size is thus to be expected.
Here's an excerpt of I wrote a month or so back, which may help:
PC Magazine just ran one of their often-interesting tips about how Word
stores scaleable vector graphics of various sorts and other types such
as JPG--apparently by creating a bitmapped WMF version that it stores
in the file to facilitate screen display. Unfortunately, WMF is a lousy
format for bitmaps (so says PC Mag), and causes enormous file bloat.
Apparently, the solution is a registry hack that stops Word from
creating the WMF file. Details:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1722372,00.asp
In case that link breaks, here's Neil Rubenking's description of the
solution: "Close all open instances of Word and launch REGEDIT from the
Start menu's Run dialog. For Word 2003, navigate to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options. Word
2002 users should change 11.0 to 10.0; Word 2000 users should change it
to 9.0. Look in the right-hand pane for a value named
ExportPictureWithMetafile; you probably won't find it. If the value is
not present, right-click in the right-hand pane and choose New | String
value from the menu. Enter the name ExportPictureWithMetafile and click
on OK. Then double-click on the newly created value, type 0 (zero) for
its value, and press Enter."
--Geoff Hart ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
www.geoff-hart.com
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