Changing the font in the Style definitions is unlikely to have any such effect. What will cause bloat is overriding the Style definitions. Both your code and mine (to a lesser extent) do that. Mine does it less so because, having changed the Style definitions, there is less (if any) content in the document that will have content that is inconsistent with the underlying Style definitions.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]