Objects Copied from Word Have an Unnecessarily Large File Size

Q137471

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Publisher for Windows 95, version 3.0
 - Microsoft Publisher for Windows, version 2.0
 - Microsoft Word for Windows 95, version 7.0
 - Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
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SYMPTOMS
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If you copy an OLE object from a Word document and paste it into a
Publisher publication, some additional and unnecessary information is also
included in your publication. This means that when you save your
publication, the amount of disk space required to store that object is
about 33-percent greater than it would be if you create the OLE object
directly in Publisher.

This is not usually a problem with "small" OLE objects, such as WordArt or
Equation Editor objects. However, if you use Microsoft Image to scan an
image into Word and then copy and paste that image into Publisher, that
extra and unneeded information can amount to several megabytes.

RESOLUTION
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You can decrease the file size of your publication by doing the following:

1. Select the OLE object that you pasted from Word.

2. On the Edit menu, click Cut.

3. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.

4. In the list of data types, click Picture.

5. Click Paste.

NOTE: If you do this, it will decrease the file size of your publication,
but the object will now no longer be an OLE object, although it will look
the same.

STATUS
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Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 3.00 pub3 pub95 w_mspub mspub filesize bigger