Re: Very different saved file sizes

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From: Oliver Walter (news_at_nospamplease.co.uk)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:15:52 -0000

"Robin Graham" <rttgraham@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:ctfj3b$hb3$1@hercules.btinternet.com...

> Some people appear to be very casual about how they construct a
document.
> For example they will use spaces between words to make columns
with instead
> of tabs. And they will leave unused tabs trailing at the end of
lines, etc.,
> etc. All these things add up to extra file size. I don't know
whether your
> friend had done this sort of thing and you tidied it up, but it's
a
> possibility.

Yes, many people edit documents like that, but:
(a) it wouldn't turn a 33 kB document into one of over 700 kB, and
(b) the only thing I did to this document was select about 20 lines
(font was Times New Roman), change the font size from 14 to 12, and
insert about 3 lines of new text. The rest of the document remained
untouched.
Thanks for trying to help.

Oliver

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