Office 2004, where 1 + 3 = 40

[Tim Streater]

I couldn't understand why our Christmas letter, containing two photos
and some text, should be 1.3Mbytes in size. I thought perhaps one of the
pix had not been reduced in size before embedding in the Word doc. I
decided to reproduce the letter (I also though that perhaps the letter,
which my wife has edited stuff into and out of for the last ten years,
was suffering from a bit of garbage non-collection a la Page maker), and
did this:

1) Made a new blank doc, and copy/pasted just the text from the existing
doc. Saved. So far so good, its only 32k.

2) Trimmed the picture and saved at lower res - good, that's only 88k.

3) Did insert picture into the so-far text-only doc and saved. Agggh,
suddenly its 1.3Mbytes.
Another problem I had - I inserted an item of clip-art, and managed to
send it behind the text. Thereafter, I was unable to select the clipart
item at all. Any attempt to click or right-click it brought up the
insert-picture dialogue. In the end, I decided to see what happened if I
did the insert picture. The clip-art vanished and whatever picture I
chose took its place.

Any comments on either of these effects would be appreciated.

-- tim

[Tim Streater]

In article <ti************ *************** *****@individua l.net>,
Tim Streater <ti**********@d ante.org.ukwrot e:

[Whinge about Office 2004 deleted]

Sorry, ignore that. Posted to the wrong NG.

-- tim

[Kimmo Laine]

"Tim Streater" <ti**********@d ante.org.ukwrot e in message
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In article <ti************ *************** *****@individua l.net>,
Tim Streater <ti**********@d ante.org.ukwrot e:

[Whinge about Office 2004 deleted]

The reason Word bloats the file is because it converts the image to a
different format, I'm guessing something like bmp, I wouldn't be surprised
if it also scaled it up. It has nothing to do with the size of the original
picture. What can I say, it's a piece of crap...

Sorry, ignore that. Posted to the wrong NG.

Indeed you did, but these things happen. :)

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