atw: Hello everyone! Word template bloat problem

I have a selection of three virtually content-identical templates, and I have 
just noticed a bloat issue, one is at 10,191 kb while the other two are each 
within a poofteenth of 3,360 kb. 

The 10,000 kb template did cause a crash overnight which infuriated me this 
morning when I tried to open a (naturally) urgently required document. Well, 
that is fixed but I am curious why the bloat is so pronounced... Only a few 
seemingly minor style alterations were made yesterday, so I 'dunno'. Note also 
that the size issue is dating back some time, which is curious. The damn thing 
is otherwise obviously clean to me. Anyway.

Wondering if a couple of you wouldn't mind giving me a list of things to check 
- I am having a bit of a rough week (limited sleep), with a bad temper, and 
very very short on patience; so some hints from you all would be gratefully 
appreciated.

I have checked:
Main document title page image - no effect removing it.
Styles are "char" corruption free. 
Styles are fairly limited, maybe a dozen custom styles outside Word's basic set 
- and all styles are properly crafted to my needs. 
No content in any document is unlinked to a source template style (I don't do 
in-document formatting).
One proprietary Siemens font used throughout all the templates, and in hundreds 
of other documents safely.
Basic custom template toolbar operations are linked to styles and some autotext 
insertions as well as a couple of (tried and well used) macros.
Minimal document automation.
No complex macros.

Anyone able to present me with some ideas please?

Oh, Word 2003 for this issue too.

Thanks in anticipation etc etc and regards,

Warren Lewington
Technical Writer
Memcor Products Asia
Siemens Water Technologies

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