I’ve been receiving some word documents from my team in UK and in US as well which are about 20 MB (and take a while to open).
When I do a ‘select all’ and copy on a fresh document, the file size shrinks to ~1 MB (or at the most 1500 KB)
I tried couple of experiments with the original 20 MB document:
1. Save it with a different name –> still the size of the newly saved doc is 20 MB
2. Remove about 20 pages from a total of 30 pages –> still the size remains same
3. Remove drawings and pictures –> no change in size.
4. But select all and copy to new document –> there is considerable change. And there is no change in font or drawings or tables etc. (all the content is as perfect).
Please help to resolve this issue.
Thanks a lot!
-ap