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Old 05-Dec-2006, 21:24
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Default Re: My .doc size is 10MB

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Originally Posted by rewboss View Post
If the problem is the image, zipping it won't help: the commonest formats (GIF, JPEG and TIFF) are already compressed, and so won't compress any further.

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Is BMP? - a lot of people still use that. And if the pic is included in a doc file (as the origijnal post suggested) zipping it (the doc file) would make a small difference - unlikely to be significant, I grant. But the way Word wastes space, I thought it might be worth trying.

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