A top tip for fixing Word documents that suddenly and inexplicably bloat in size.
I was working on a 1.5Mb document that suddenly expanded to 14Mb!
The following tip fixed it for me, Jim:
"…formatting information, much of it obsolete, is stored in the final paragraph mark of the document. When you go to the end of the document with Ctrl-End, the cursor is positioned just before this final paragraph mark. When you select everything back to the start of the document with Ctrl-Shift-Home you select everything but the final mark. On the other hand, if you select everything with Select All, you include the final paragraph mark with all the junk in it, so copying to a new document doesn't necessarily do you any good…"
http://ciencia.silvert.org/editing/shrinking.htm
After doing this the document reverted to 1.5Mb.
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