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Originally Posted by HarryT
Does the file contain pictures? Pictures are stored in an extremely "verbose" manner in RTF files - an image which is, say, 100kb as a JPG of GIF file can add many MB to the size of an RTF file.
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Nope, no pictures, just text. It is strange, because if I open the 18MB file using WordPad (not Word) and then hit file, it is saved at a normal size.
As I said, from looking at the raw file, it appears that word is applying the formating (typeface, font, size, etc.) to each individual word of the file separately. I have no idea why it is doing this.
I did some more playing and the huge RTF files could not be read on the reader. They transfered and show in the book list but when I try and open one I get an error.
I am happy with my WordPad workaround and I don't mean this thread as any complaint. I am sure there is something funny with my Word configuration. But I wanted to make a record so that if anybody else had this problem, they to would have a work around.