Re: reduce drawing file size

Mark,

Great! I had a much bigger problem...and turning of preview helped. I
inserted a tiff image (46kB) into my Visio 2002 SP2 and the .vsd file swell
from 188 to 3600KB. After trying several options (in the help menu) I came to
the discussion groups. Man it works! You saved my day! Keep up the good work!
I think Microsoft should add a file size trouble shooter in the help menu.

"Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote:

> The only way to do it quicker is with automation code. However, it takes a
> bit of work to create a program that would accurately know when it can
> delete a master.
>
> If you are curious about what is still taking up space, save the file as XML
> and open it in a text editor. There may be a VBA project in the document or
> some embedded COM object.
>
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> Mark Nelson
> Microsoft Corporation
>
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>
> "Doug P" <dougpeppers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:exZvThfZFHA.3288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I followed your suggestions. The save preview picture was not checked. I
> >did delete all of the masters, and the file size is 192 KB. This helps a
> >lot. Thanks! I still wonder why the file size is 192KB instead of 16KB.
> >
> > Also, I deleted the master shapes one at a time. It took a long time. Is
> > there a way to delete all of the master shapes at once?
> >
> > If I am working on a drawing with a lot of shapes, how can I tell easily
> > which shapes in the document stencil I can delete? Especially if someone
> > started with a lot of unneeded shapes or made lots of editing without
> > deleting the old ones, it seems to me it is hard to keep up with which
> > master shapes in the document stencil are OK to delete.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Nelson [MS] wrote:
> >> Go to File > Properties and turn off the Preview to see if that makes a
> >> difference.
> >>
> >> Then go to File > Shapes > Show Document Stencil and delete any master
> >> shapes you do not need.
> >>
>
>
>
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