ever increasing MAC Word 2004 file (800Mb) from opened WIN..

My apologies - I forgot to mention I had converted table to text before
copying to Excel and then back to text in Word to convert to a table again.
but thanks ...

any further ideas?

"Leon B-C" wrote:

> HI
> I have struggled for a week to edit a file containing many tables generated
> in Word 2007 for Windows on my MAC Word 2004. the original file continues to
> increase - now about 1000 times bigger - I've tried taking out the text and
> determined the size/problem appears to be in the tables.
> So I've selected the tables individually, pasted into Excel and tidied the
> dispaly and copied into a fresh document in Word - the problem persists.
> This report is approaching deadline and i don't have the time to retypr? and
> create the document from scratch. The issue is gobbling sys resources and
> grinding Word, memory and processor to a snail pace
> many thanks in advance
>
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In article <69E43AB0-E0D6-41DC-8197-ED635228DBFD DeleteThis @microsoft.com>,
Leon B-C <LeonBC DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> any further ideas?

I can't follow exactly, since you said you pasted into a fresh document,
but if you haven't tried a maggie yet, I'd try that: With non-printing
characters showing, copy everything up to, but not including, the last
paragraph mark to a completely new document.

To be even safer, I'd probably close Word first, trash (or rename) my
Normal template, then start Word again to make sure I got a
factory-default document to paste into.
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In article <jemcgimpsey-BC4BC5.14224908112007 DeleteThis @msnews.microsoft.com>,
JE McGimpsey <jemcgimpsey DeleteThis @mvps.org> wrote:

> In article <69E43AB0-E0D6-41DC-8197-ED635228DBFD DeleteThis @microsoft.com>,
> Leon B-C <LeonBC DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > any further ideas?
>
> I can't follow exactly, since you said you pasted into a fresh document,
> but if you haven't tried a maggie yet, I'd try that: With non-printing
> characters showing, copy everything up to, but not including, the last
> paragraph mark to a completely new document.
>
> To be even safer, I'd probably close Word first, trash (or rename) my
> Normal template, then start Word again to make sure I got a
> factory-default document to paste into.

I found a similar problem once and traced it back to a HUGE pile of
embedded fonts. The only way I fixed the document (Word2000 for
Windows in this case) was to copy and paste a page at a time, taking
care not to copy across a page boundary, and keep a sharp eye on the
size of the new document I was building.

--
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Could be old document fragments still floating around in your document. Try
the following: turn the invisible paragraph markers on (by clicking on the
inverted "P" in the standard toolbar ¶, or by hitting Cmd+8), then select
everything except for the last ¶ (inverted "P") sign at the very end of your
document. Copy this, paste it into a new document, save it and see if the
file size keeps ballooning like before.


On 08/11/2007 21:40, in article
69E43AB0-E0D6-41DC-8197-ED635228DBFD DeleteThis @microsoft.com, "Leon B-C"
<LeonBC DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> My apologies - I forgot to mention I had converted table to text before
> copying to Excel and then back to text in Word to convert to a table again.
> but thanks ...
>
> any further ideas?
>
> "Leon B-C" wrote:
>
>> HI
>> I have struggled for a week to edit a file containing many tables generated
>> in Word 2007 for Windows on my MAC Word 2004. the original file continues to
>> increase - now about 1000 times bigger - I've tried taking out the text and
>> determined the size/problem appears to be in the tables.
>> So I've selected the tables individually, pasted into Excel and tidied the
>> dispaly and copied into a fresh document in Word - the problem persists.
>> This report is approaching deadline and i don't have the time to retypr? and
>> create the document from scratch. The issue is gobbling sys resources and
>> grinding Word, memory and processor to a snail pace
>> many thanks in advance
>

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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In article <C3593A8A.3BAA%mbintener@NOmvpsSPAM.org>,
Michel Bintener <mbintener RemoveThis @NOmvpsSPAM.org> wrote:

> inverted "P" in the standard toolbar ¶

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow
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Thanks to all who posted (JE McGimpsey, Carl Witthoft & Michel Bintener)- a
combination of these strategies and info worked. I eventually tracked down
the one apparent culprit table out of about 80 tables by repeatedly halving
the document and each time halving the monster portion until I'd isolated the
final culprit (a mere 2 column 4 line table which must have had heaps of left
over code) at 20Mb - I've now retyped the offending table in a new doc and
reassembled the overall document at 600kb approx - relieved and grateful ...
and on time too!
cheers LeonB-C
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On 9/11/07 9:53 PM, in article
29032EE9-C481-44CF-8D20-FB7152A748EA.DeleteThis@microsoft.com, "Leon B-C"
<LeonBC.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all who posted (JE McGimpsey, Carl Witthoft & Michel Bintener)- a
> combination of these strategies and info worked. I eventually tracked down
> the one apparent culprit table out of about 80 tables by repeatedly halving
> the document and each time halving the monster portion until I'd isolated the
> final culprit (a mere 2 column 4 line table which must have had heaps of left
> over code) at 20Mb - I've now retyped the offending table in a new doc and
> reassembled the overall document at 600kb approx - relieved and grateful ...
> and on time too!
> cheers LeonB-C

Thanks for the feedback, Leon!

Ain't Word wonderful? What would we be doing with our little lives were it
not for such intellectual challenges? ;-)

Clive Huggan
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