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Originally Posted by 46137
OpenOffice is even more horrific than word.
I always save as rtf at the end. I just think I have to put up with it. Pain though
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If you really want to know what is happening then look at the file in notepad. It is pure ascii and you can read it to figure out was is happening. Wordpad is by far the smallest. Word store metadata such as author and title and also has tracking rsid's scattered through the document and adds data about word as being the generator of the document, the printer size, paper size, formatting stuff and instantly makes it bigger. Each time you make a minor change and save it the resid's get added, the version gets bumped and other housekeeping things happen.
The best bet is to modify in word pad and then revisit once in word to add the metadata. (It is possible to just append the metadata at the bottom of the file from an older word rtf or design a simple script to add it back in. Just look it over and you will see how it is structured.
Dale