Reduce File Size with many images

[James Walker]

I Have Word (XP) document that is rather large because of a lot of images. I
thought there was a "shortcut" key stroke that would "convert" the images
and in turn reduce the overall file size. I'm not having any luck finding
it, does anyone here know of one?

The "shortcut" key stroke is similar to the Remove All Hyperlinks: CTRL+A
(Select All) then CTRL+SHIFT+F9 (remove hyperlinks)

Thanks,
James Walker, Jr.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi James,

I Have Word (XP) document that is rather large because of a lot of images. I
thought there was a "shortcut" key stroke that would "convert" the images
and in turn reduce the overall file size. I'm not having any luck finding
it, does anyone here know of one?

The "shortcut" key stroke is similar to the Remove All Hyperlinks: CTRL+A
(Select All) then CTRL+SHIFT+F9 (remove hyperlinks)

I've never heard of anything like this for images. As far as I know, the only
way to reduce file size is to link in the images without saving them in the
document (IncludePicture field with the \d switch).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Hi James,

I've never heard of anything like this for images. As far as I know,
the only way to reduce file size is to link in the images without
saving them in the document (IncludePicture field with the \d switch).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)


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Maybe he meant:
Select the picture, right click, select Format and go to the Picture tab and
click on Compress? Works here.

Word 2002.

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