Document Template size

[LEU]

The file size of my template is 367KB. I was trying to reduce the size by
revising some of my macros. I eliminated 30 to 40 lines of macro texts by
combining some macros. Then when I went to save the template the size went to
403KB. Why would it increase in size?

 

[Jay Freedman]

The file size of my template is 367KB. I was trying to reduce the size by
revising some of my macros. I eliminated 30 to 40 lines of macro texts by
combining some macros. Then when I went to save the template the size went to
403KB. Why would it increase in size?

That's a phenomenon that users have named "template bloat". I don't know the
technical details of why it happens, but it can often be reversed.

Read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/TemplateBloat.htm and try the code
cleaner linked to that page.

 

[LEU]

Thanks for the information Jay. I can’t download the file here at work or
install it. So I had a different idea I wanted to try. We are using Word 2003
here at work and I have Word 2007 at home. What I did was I took it home,
opened it in Word 2007 and saved it as a new Word 2003 template. That dropped
the file size down from 403 KB to 242 KB. I then brought it back into work
and it works fine.

LEU