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Re: 6-Page Word file over 1/2Meg!

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From: Neil HOOPMAN
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 1990 19:14
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In <2822@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM> lenh@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM (Len Humbird) writes:
>My 6-page memo -no graphics to speak of- is about 529K, 49K of which is 
>ascii text.  My question is, where is the other 480K being used?

It sounds like you've done a lot of editing on this document.  By default,
Word uses "Fast Save", which saves only the changes to a document at the
end of the file.  In day to day editing, this is much faster then rewriting
the entire file.  To save the file without all of the changes you've made,
do File/Save As... and turn off Fast Save.  You only have to do this once;
the file should go down in size.  If you find the file getting too
large again, you can repeat this procedure.  If you don't like Fast Save,
you can turn it off, but you will notice a difference with large files.

If this does't answer your question, please let me know!

--Neil

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From: neilh@microsoft.UUCP (Neil HOOPMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 6-Page Word file over 1/2Meg!
Summary: Turn off fast save
Keywords: Word 4.0, toobig, weird, phegm.
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Date: 9 Apr 90 19:14:47 GMT
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