help with my file please

[TL]

I have a long document but it's size must be 250-350kb but
one of my file shows 10.7 mb. Don't understand why... When
I tried to delete everytext etc from it the size didn't
not decresed. At one point I deleted everything and it has
still same size so I copied all text and pasted in new one
the size is 230kb now.Why it was 10.7mb for the previous
one??
Any help

Thanks
TL

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Probably it had become corrupted somehow....especially possible if you had
"allow fast saves" checked under Tools | Options, Save tab.

The first way to check for a corrupt document is to
copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new
document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get
corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your
formatting, but can fix some glitches.

Perhaps you effectively did that, in your copying and pasting? You might
want to do it again, just in case.

A paragraph mark is a gray ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

See this link for further info:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

DM