Linking Letterhead to a document

[R-Mol]

Any idea why when I link another Word document that
contains my letterhead that the size of the document
increases in size from around 70k to 526k? The document
I am linking to is only around 70k in size?? I need to
link our templates to our letterhead so that I do not
have to update hundreds of templates everytime something
changes. It works beautifully with a linked document
but there is no way that I can have hundreds and hundreds
of letters taking up a 526K or so when they should only
taken 70-100K. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
THERE HAS TO BE A WAY TO MAKE THIS WORK :-(

 

[Rob Schneider]

It is working, and this is how Word works.
500 k time 500 documents is only 250 mb ...

I presume your "letterhead" is some sort of graphics image. Have you
tried shrinking it's file size with a graphics tool. I don't think it's
worth it, but something you could try if the 250 mb bothers you.

keep in mind that each letter you create with these graphic images will
also have it as a copy, thus consuming yet more space beyond that
consumed just by the templates. For information to exist, it must
occupy space. That's the way the universe is.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Rob Schneider]

To understand it requires more indepth information from Microsoft or
others. Frankly, it's how it works. I recall this being discussed on
some of Woody Leonhard's books on Words. Maybe get the background on why
from there.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms