Hello BobHewson,

as you have correctly pointed out the problem is in your pictures, they are just too big.

So first of all, try to resave all of your pictures into png format. This format offers best ratio between quality and size and is usually smaller than jpg format.

The second thing you should do is to resize your pictures directly in your graphic editor. When you resize pictures in word, you change their dimensions but you do not change their KB size so despite they are small they take a lot of space.

So change dimensions in graphics editor, save it and then paste in your word document.



And let me know how it went. :-)

mike

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