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--- On Sun, 10/3/10, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> > Subject: [NF] Have Microsoft Word save RTF documents in a leaner format > (similar to WordPad RTF) > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010, 8:13 AM > Are there any techniques one can use > to have Word save RTF > documents in a leaner (simpler, lighter weight) format than > it > does by default? We have large RTF documents that use > basic > formatting only and the size difference between Word (2003, > 2007, > 2010) RTF documents and the same documents opened in > WordPad and > resaved is 4x! For example, a 6M RTF Word document becomes > a 1.4M > RTF document when opened with Word and resaved. The WordPad > RTF > file open and saves are instantaneous, but the Word RTF > open and > saves are very slow. Using our 6M example document, all > recent > versions of Word can take 4+ seconds to open or save this > document, but the same document opens and saves > instantaneously > via WordPad. > We are locked into using RTF because these documents are > part of > a complex workflow with all steps requiring RTF content. We > are > also locked into Word because of legacy macros that control > how > files move through the workflow. > > Thanks, > Malcolm > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
