atw: Re: Hello everyone! Word template bloat problem

Not sure if this is the reason, but in my experience having a lot of tracked
changes in the document, without them being accepted can cause this
problem..it seems to hit a limit, will cause the document to crash, and I
think the filesize is also affected. There are generally some crazy
formatting problems as well. 

 

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Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2009 12:24 PM
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Subject: 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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