Re: Word 2007 produces very large Word 2003 compatible files

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It sounds like you're having problems with a single document, although I'm more confused now than I was.

You start out as a 75K .doc file (from somewhere) - you open it in Word 2007 using your normal account and save it as a .docx (which is 65K) then you do what exactly before saving it again as a .doc at 220K? And then according to your first post you open this on the Word 2003 computer and do something unspecified before it again grows by a factor of 3 or 4.

As you don't seem to need or want the document in .docx format, what happens if you simply work with the document in .doc format - you open a 75K file, edit it somehow, and save it (as .doc) - how big is it then?

As for the contents, I would be a bit surprised if the file was mainly the 'y' you mention (all binary ones) - there would be some of them - a block at the beginning is common, as is a block at the end - but binary zeroes are much more common padding (and they do sometimes seem to go and on more than is really necessary).

--
Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

"BrianS" <BrianS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:869A90C4-AB45-487A-9B97-03DD07E32879@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a desktop, that's my 'normal' computer that has Vista and Word 2007, a
portable that has XP and Word 2003 and my wife has another desktop with Vista
and Word 2007.

Word 2003 on the portable has the Microsoft software that allows it to
import and save in docx format.

My normal computer has an Admin account and my normal user account.

It is this last account that is giving the trouble. All the others work will
happily save docx and doc files that are stable in size and have about 20%
difference in size, as you would expect.

If you look at the very large doc files you find they are full of padding,
typically mainly 'y' with a trema on top though not entirely.

In the 'bad'account, if you take the 75k doc file and save it as docx, then
it's 65k. If you save it as doc file it's 220k.


I produce a monthly newsletter that goes to about 500 people, some of whom
may be still using Windows Me and early versions of Word with dial up access.
This means that file size is important.

The problem started between the November and December Newsletters.

regards

Brian

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

It's difficult to know exactly what might be the cause but on re-reading
your original post I see:

You have a document that is about 65K in .docx format and 220K in .doc
format -- this is believable. You open it on another computer and (and
what?) and it grows to 600-900K. This suggests something odd somewhere - I
wouldn't like to say where without knowing more about the contents
(pictures, perhaps, or just plain text, or something else?).

You take the same 65K .docx file and save it as .doc using a different user
and it comes out at 75K -- this is somewhat less believable, can you confirm
it? What then happems to this document when opened on the other computer,
and treated in the same way as the first?

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Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

"BrianS" <BrianS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:406A8F6A-C061-447A-B322-D0950A0B56E2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Tony
>
> It is on all files.
>
> I renamed the Data key to 'Data old' - no difference.
>
> I changed the HKCU\Sofare\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word key to
> HKCU\Sofare\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word Old - again, no difference.
>
> I think you are probably in the right area. There must be other
> initialisation information somewhere.
>
> regards
> Brian
>
> "Tony Jollans" wrote:
>
>> If you get differences in behaviour from one User account to another >> on
>> the
>> same machine and with the same document, then, assuming it happens >> with
>> all
>> documents, the differences must be in the User accounts, presumably in
>> the
>> Word settings on them. If you have copied Normal.dotm from the good
>> account
>> to the bad, and it has made no difference, the most likely culprit is
>> some
>> setting in the Word Data Registry key -
>> HKCU\Sofare\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data. Try renaming this key and
>> letting Word create a new one - if that still doesn't make a >> difference,
>> try
>> renaming its parent Word key.
>>
>> -- >> Enjoy,
>> Tony
>>
>> www.WordArticles.com
>>
>> "BrianS" <BrianS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:3400499C-8764-4B30-9FA2-169422D6B6E3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > When I save a file in the docx format in my normal user account on >> > my
>> > computer it is about 65kbytes. When I save the same file in the doc
>> > format
>> > it
>> > is 220k. (If I then open the doc file with Word 2003 on a different
>> > computer
>> > and save it, it grows again by a factor of three or four.)
>> >
>> > If I use the Admin account on my computer to save the file as a doc
>> > file
>> > then it grows to 75k and the file size is stable when opened by Word
>> > 2003.
>> >
>> > Similarly, if I import the docx file into Word 2003 and save it as a
>> > doc
>> > file, the size is 75k.
>> >
>> > I have reloaded Office and run the Office Repair. I have also run >> > the
>> > Word
>> > diagnostic Programme - which says everything is fine. I have removed
>> > all
>> > the
>> > templates from my User account template folder and copied in
>> > normal.dotm
>> > from
>> > the Admin account. The problem persists.
>> >
>> > I can check through my files and find that the problem started in
>> > November
>> > or December, prior to that, saving in the doc format worked fine.
>> >
>> > Obviously, something is wrong with the initialising data for Word in >> > my
>> > User
>> > account. Can you help me fix it, please?
>>
>>



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