Well no wonder it takes 3 minutes to open/save...

[triadruid]

Just a quick question for those who work with Microsoft *hack*spit* Word on a regular basis; do you know what picture format will work best to reduce the overall size of a document?

I know that MS Access has a peculiarity where .bmp images are more size-economical to embed than .gif or .jpg (graphics artists, try not to pop a vein); but I'm not at all certain this holds true for Word. My office manual, currently standing at 41 pages and probably 100 odd-sized .bmp images, is topping out at just over 30 Megabytes. This seems excessive, somehow.

I won't be able to clear it up by next Monday when the new help starts, but you know; it'd be nice if the entire manual still fit on a CD when I was done with it. Yes, I know that's an order of magnitude larger than I currently stand; I'm being sarcastic.

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Just on the off-chance that this is applicable, you're not sizing these things down in Word, are you? This is, of course, a really great way to maximize your file space with a lot of seemingly insignificant pictures...

Yes and no

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Because of the rush job, I'm taking most of them as screen captures, putting them in Paint, cutting them to size (300x400 pixels for most, a few larger, some significantly smaller), and then pasting them directly into Word. Only about 10% have had to be sized down after pasting.

I can't be arsed at this juncture with saving the files separately and linking them in; they're just embedded bitmaps, or whatever the hell Windows Clipboard uses as a native file format.

Re: Yes and no

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I work with Microsoft Office (including mcWord, mcPublisher and mcAccess) like, 60 hours a week...and I still don't understand what you're talking about.

Sorry.

That's cause I'm a hack

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I'm self taught on a lot of this corporate office Microsoft stuff, so I make a lot of it up in very interesting ways from time to time...

Which makes it especially fun that I get to teach the new people how to do things around here. ;)

Re: Yes and no

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the problem you have in Word - it's going to retain the file size regardless of what kind of manipulation you're doing in the document. To change any of that, you're going to have to go back to your photo editor, or whatnot else.

Notice that I have cleverly avoided your original question, because I don't know the answer.