Huge doc sizes when created from template

[rmac]

I'm currently using Office 11.3.6 but this problem dates back to when
I first started using this version 11. The problem is when I create a
Word document template in Mac, it works fine. When I take the created
template to Windows machine and create a document out of that, the
result is a huge document size. My template is one page document that
has one header image, PNG format and size of about 40 k. When I create
simple document of that template in Mac, the doc size is 68 k. When I
do the same on Windows, the result is a document that has size of over
2,0 MB!! If there any workaround to this problem since I would like to
finish the document templates using the same machine where all the
Adobe stuff is installed.

 

[CyberTaz]

Let me guess - You put the image into the template by copy/paste rather than
Insert> Picture. If so the image *isn't* a PNG any longer. It was converted
to a Mac PICT which Windows can't display. When the template goes to the
Dark Side Word has to recreate it as an EMF and continues to store *both*
the PICT & the EMF, hence a larger file size.

Depending on other aspects of the template there may be more to it, but that
is most likely the prime single factor.

 

[John McGhie]

Actually, if the image really is .PNG, then it shouldn't convert on either
platform.

I wonder if he is afflicted with the "Stranded RTF" bug?

It might be worth copying all except the last paragraph mark into a new
template to see whether that fixes it.

Hope this helps

Let me guess - You put the image into the template by copy/paste rather than
Insert> Picture. If so the image *isn't* a PNG any longer. It was converted
to a Mac PICT which Windows can't display. When the template goes to the
Dark Side Word has to recreate it as an EMF and continues to store *both*
the PICT & the EMF, hence a larger file size.

Depending on other aspects of the template there may be more to it, but that
is most likely the prime single factor.

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