Huge small Word document

[Maria]

A friend mailed me an invitation in a Word 2002 document.

It consists of a simple 2-cell table in the top just containing name & address,
one color picture 325 x 273 pixel of a flower and 5 lines of text.

Yet its size is 2.3 MB
When attached the subsequent email grew to 3 MB which is not pleasing dial-up
receivers.

The pic when extracted appears to be a 260 kB .bmp

Any explanations for this large documentsize and/or how-to avoid?

Maria

 

[Maria]

A friend mailed me an invitation in a Word 2002 document.

It consists of a simple 2-cell table in the top just containing name & address,
one color picture 325 x 273 pixel of a flower and 5 lines of text.

Yet its size is 2.3 MB
When attached the subsequent email grew to 3 MB which is not pleasing dial-up
receivers.

The pic when extracted appears to be a 260 kB .bmp

Any explanations for this large documentsize and/or how-to avoid?

Maria

As a matter of curiosity I just converted the original .bmp picture with the
same but in .jpg format.

The entire Word doc file size is now only a staggering 56 kB instead of 2.3 MB!

So apparently including a .bmp pic in a Word doc, maybe the author even having
resized it inside the doc, is blowing its filesize up tremendously.

Maybe this find will help others!

Maria