Melissa, one other thing to try that I can think of. While inside the file, do a control a to select the entire contents. Then, do a control c to copy the entire contents. Then, create a new document with a control n. Paste the contents of the original into it with a control v. Save this new file, with a new file name, but save it as a Word Document, not as a rtf. Then, save it again, with yet another new file name, this time as a rtf file.
Then go look at the size of the new rtf file and see if the size is much better. If it is, then move ahead working with the new rtf file.
I've found that sometimes this will work, when you've got what you're describing going on. It strips out spurious codes that can find their way into the document.
Judy s. Melissa Smith wrote:
Well, neither of these was checked. Embed smart tags was. I unchecked it, though I'm not sure if that made much of a difference. Any other ideas?Thanks, Melissa Monica Willyard wrote:Hi Melissa. Two things might be causing this. One is caused by having fastsave enabled. It's in the options dialog. With that turned on, Word keeps appending things to your document instead of just re-saving your file. It makes files larger than they need to be.The other thing that might be happening is if you have Word set to embed a copy of your fonts in your files. This is done if you want to send files to people, and you don't know if they have a particular font you're using, like a handwriting font. Since most people have Times New Roman, embedding fonts isn't needed. Again, this is a checkbox in the options of Word. It should beunchecked by default unless you frequently send documents to other people where a special font is needed.I hope this helps. If both of these options are unchecked, I have no clue. I do know that when I fix page breaks and fonts in Word, my resulting file is somewhat larger than when it was in Kurzweil. I don't know why, but suspectWord adds some extra formatting code to the file.Monica WillyardCheck out my books and accessible book lists on Goodreads at http://www.goodreads.com/profile/plumlipstickTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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