Thank you for helping me with this problem. Whew, I can see right now, that this has caused a hornets nest. LOL I appreciate everything everyone has done for me. I'm tellin' ya one thing... I've already changed my camera's resolution settings back for good. :o)) Thanks again, Sallie Hi Sallie, What seems to have happened, is that as you have increased the 'clarity' (resolution) of the photo's, you've inadvertently increased the size of each image dramatically. The increase in size is often close to exponential, so for example, doubling the 'clarity' or resolution can increase the size of the image file by ten times. This is always a juggling act when dealing with a document with lots of images in it. I don't think just zipping the file will give you the kind of compression you need. As someone else has suggested, you will have to go through and change each image manually. To do that, you might try software like 'Irfranview' (free and downloadable here <http://www.webattack.com/dlnow/dlnow.dll?Inc=No&ID=101840>). With that, you will be able to play with the resolution and the amount of compression applied to each .jpg file. You will be able to see the size of the file before and after each change... But it sounds like you have a lot of images in that file, and you may never get the size of the publication down to an acceptable size while maintaining acceptable quality in the images. You might try and split the document into two or more sections and email those separately. Hope that helps. ____________________________________ Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). http://www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). http://www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************