>So, it appears to be a downside of the newer version of Word. Maybe it's just one feature of word that is less efficient. I don't know if you have a table in your document, but as an example. Maybe Word docs without a table don't do this. If there isn't a table, maybe it's some other feature. Just some thoughts.
Another older document changed from 46 to 50 KB when saving with Word 2003 - not that significant a difference. Must be the table, in the case mentioned. Very likely, the support for some fancy new feature in tables. However, even if I "disable features after version...", the document is still inflated.
Well, when I compress the document, it actually compresses very well - very likely, the inflated information is repetitive. So, publishing it on a Web site is not that much of a problem. I was simply wondering whether I had overlooked something simple!
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