Growing Document Problem

[Glenn_G]

I have a 30 page document that started at 946KB. I did some editing i
a table (enboldened some characters). When I highlighted the word
clicked on the Bold button, the entire table went bold. I did an und
and all went back to normal except for the word that I originall
wanted to be bold. I though all was hunky dory. After I bolden
number of words in this manner, much to my dismay, the document gre
and grew...now 96 MBs. what happened

 

[TF]

Go to Format, Styles and clear the check box against Automatically Update:
see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm.

It also sounds like you have started to corrupt the document: copy and paste
it without the final paragraph mark into a fresh blank document: see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm




:I have a 30 page document that started at 946KB. I did some editing in
: a table (enboldened some characters). When I highlighted the word,
: clicked on the Bold button, the entire table went bold. I did an undo
: and all went back to normal except for the word that I originally
: wanted to be bold. I though all was hunky dory. After I bolden a
: number of words in this manner, much to my dismay, the document grew
: and grew...now 96 MBs. what happened?
: