What might tell us if it is a glitch that won't go away, or a downside to the newer version is this: Select all of the document, then paste it in a new document and save it with a new name. Are the file sizes the same?

>I opened a document from a previous version (Word 2000, I think) in Word 2003, made a few minor changes, and saved it again. Now, it uses up more than twice the previous size. (The document had ca. 30 pages, most of it in a table. The size grew from ca. 300 KB to ca. 600 MB.)
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>I have already checked:
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That Fast Save is disabled,
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That saving multiple versions is disabled.
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I also tried, without success with regard to the file size, to disable features after Word 97.
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>Is there anything else I have to check? Or do I simply have to put up with the fact that Word documents have grown so much larger? The strange thing, even if I save it as RTF, the size is maintained.
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>I wanted to publish this particular document on the Web. Of course, I can, and will, compress it. But I am still wondering what is going on.

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