Unexpected large files sizes in Word X!!!!!Help!!!!

[Thomas M Foley]

Office X, Word X, G4 iMac.
We are experiencing weird file corruption in Word. Some files after a few
days bloat to over 1 MB. Then I open them, copy the text, paste it into a
new document and Save As. The file size is then like 48Kb or whatever. I
throw out the original. This does not happen with every file, but it's like
a random force. When these files do become bloated and I try to open them,
it asks if I want to revert to the saved copy, but there is no other copy
open. Anyone have any ideas? I've reinstalled office and ran virus scan.
No macro viruses found. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Tom

TMF Consulting, LLC

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Tom,

Check your Preferences on the Save tab. Do you have Allow Fast Saves
checked? If so, uncheck it and leave it unchecked! Then check Always
Create Backup Copy. Now do a Save of each document to clear out the junk
that Allow Fast Saves put there.

Hope that does it.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

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