Cleaning/Compressing a Document.

[Caretaker]

I have been working on a document through many revisions. Also this document
started out as something else. I am ready to send it off to public domain.

I would like to know how to remove all of the extraneous (anything not
available in the printed version that is) information from the document.

I have already deleted the revision history, but that still leaves almost
all of the original info still in the document. If I view the doc with just
a text editor I can see almost all the history including the original form.

I hope I stated things clearly.

Thanks,
Alan

 

[Caretaker]

Some Testing Results.

First I want to thank Elliott, Beth Clive & Dave.

Beth/Elliott, based on your last posts I did some testing.

I took a document that has been through several months of editing. It
contains some extensive formatting and Headers & footers w/graphics. The
most significant result is:


It appears that If I save this document as RTF, re-open then save the RTF
as DOC it cuts the size by 60%.

If I open the original doc and Œcopy all¹ then create a blank doc and paste
the copy it cuts the size by 60% too.

If I compare the two in a text editor they appear essentially the same.

It seems the simple copy & paste removes all the extraneous data (human
readable) from the document as well as any other method. And this is
certainly the fastest.

WOULD YOU AGREE?

It also seems that Word for Windows embeds much more Œmetadata¹ (as it is
called, although it is not intentional data structures) than does Word X.
Word X keeps some older revision info, but does not appear to retain buffer
info or EOF structures etc.

I am pressing this issue because I would like to be as sure and complete as
possible in my understanding. Hope no one is put-out.

Thanks All again.
Alan

ps: Is the Word file format propriety, or available?