HUGE office 2007 file size

[Thomas]

I was having the opposite problem everyone else in these forums seems to have
and just wanted to share the reason why. I saved powerpoint and word
documents in the 2007 format and the file sizes were rediculous (a six page
nearing 10MB) and then resaved them in compatibility mode and noticed the
file size would be reduced by a factor of 9 or so. 88MB ppt file -> 10 MB ppt
file. I realized at the time I was saving my images as tiffs which explained
the large initial file size (the afforementioned word document is only 337kB
when jpegs are used as opposed to tiffs in docx format), but can only guess
that the reduction in size when saving in compatibility mode is because the
images are automatically converted to Office Picture Objects (or whatever the
standard image format is) instead of tiffs. Does anyone know if this is
correct?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Thomas,

It could depend on the content or format of the TIFFs and also
how you are inserting the graphics (Insert picture from file, or paste from another source or Insert=>Object?)

In Inserting (using picture from file) a 1mb single page TIFF into a blank .doc, .docx, .PPT and .PPTX, the .PPTX comes up smaller
than the .PPT and the .docx file comes up smaller than the .doc file.

(If you're inserting a Multipage TIFF only the first page is displayed, but the whole file is inserted).

What is the file size of the TIFF file before being inserted.
Do you get the same result with the same basic procedure as above on using a new blank files?

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I was having the opposite problem everyone else in these forums seems to have
and just wanted to share the reason why. I saved powerpoint and word
documents in the 2007 format and the file sizes were rediculous (a six page
nearing 10MB) and then resaved them in compatibility mode and noticed the
file size would be reduced by a factor of 9 or so. 88MB ppt file -> 10 MB ppt
file. I realized at the time I was saving my images as tiffs which explained
the large initial file size (the afforementioned word document is only 337kB
when jpegs are used as opposed to tiffs in docx format), but can only guess
that the reduction in size when saving in compatibility mode is because the
images are automatically converted to Office Picture Objects (or whatever the
standard image format is) instead of tiffs. Does anyone know if this is
correct?>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Gordon]

I was having the opposite problem everyone else in these forums seems to
have
and just wanted to share the reason why. I saved powerpoint and word
documents in the 2007 format and the file sizes were rediculous (a six
page
nearing 10MB) and then resaved them in compatibility mode and noticed the
file size would be reduced by a factor of 9 or so. 88MB ppt file -> 10 MB
ppt

I have the opposite - I have a Word 97-2003 format document of 14 pages with
9 pictures in (jpeg) which is 1724 kb in size - if I do Save-As into 2007
format, the size REDUCES to 829 kb....

 

[Thomas]

I do all my image editing in Photoshop and usually insert pictures that are
300 dpi at about 6 inches wide with 2:3 aspect ratio. Sometimes the image is
6x9 and sometimes it is 4x6, but always 6 inches wide (typically). So they
are fairly large images. 3-4 megs or more.

A little experiment...
3.33MB tiff file.
Doc1.docx (913kB) -> Doc1.doc (2,261kB)
Presentation1.pptx (939kB) -> Presentation1.ppt (828kB) <- interesting

My 10MB docx file did become a 1.2 MB doc file though. Odd. Odd that it was
10MB to begin with and odd that it became such a small file after saving in
compatibility mode.

Working on another report, so I will see how this one turns out and keep
everyone updated.