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Subject:Re: Help! - Save Problem in Word97 From:Buck Buchanan <buck -dot- buchanan -at- CITICORP -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:00:35 -0700
GeriLou Ciotoli wrote:
>
> Help,
>
> I'm working in Word 97 on Windows 95. I have a document 59 pages long. The
> text is complete and I was inserting links to CorelDraw5 graphics. I was
> saving frequently since we are having a thunderstorm.
>
> My problem: Now I cannot save this document at all. Luckily I have it saved
> up to this point. But now when I open the document, I just tried to save it
> and it won't save at all.
I have just gone through the EXACT SAME problem, except in Word6.
My solution was this:
1. Use Word 97 to create an html file from the filename.doc file.
I know. You don't want an html file. Hush!
2. In the process of the conversion, all your graphics are extracted by
Word97 and converted to .gif files.
Oh, thank you Word.
3. Make a new word document and insert each .gif, then put a Figure
caption with the filename.gif beneath it for later use.
4.. Remove--one by one--each graphic and re-insert the .gif in place of
it.
Reduces the file size by up to 80%.
If you need to do anything else to the graphic, do it to the .tif or
whatever format it was in prior to conversion, then convert it again to
a .gif (gifs don't like to be changed; they lose some resolution in the
change).
By the way, I'm not sure about 97 because haven't tried it with that
version, but Win6 doesn't like files larger than about 35 meg. It fails
with a message, "File too large. Delete some text and try again."
Hope this helps.
--
Buck Buchanan
Software Documentation
Citicorp Technology Center
Westlake, Texas
Speaking for me, not for them!
buck -dot- buchanan -at- citicorp -dot- com
formerly: writer -at- dhc -dot- net
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