Thanks Mike,

I will try the different picture file type in my next newsletter.

Still not sure of the cause though. When I use my technique I have been inserting full size jpeg picture files of 1 - 5 meg each, resizing in Word, setting text wrapping in Word, then compressing the picture size all using Word. The final doc file size has been ~1meg, never more than 2meg despite having inserted up to 50 meg of pictures (at regular size).

The current newsletter has more pictures than I normally use (about 50), so perhaps there is a limit of pictures that can be compressed in one file?

I did try removing about 1/2 of the pictures by deleting them, but the file size remained at 63 meg. The pictures I cut out and moved to another file plus added more is only 2 meg in saved form.

So, as you can see there may be more to this problem.

Bob