Hi OfficeBuddy,

That really doesn't address what happens when you insert the picture into Word, which uses its own algortihms for storing the data. Yes, changing the height/width can help, but the problem we're dealing with here has nothing to do with Photoshop's interpretation of a 'document size'. What matters is the actual number of pixels for a given width/height as the image will appear in the Word document. Around 300ppi for the final image size in Word is about the minimum needed for photo-quality and anything over 400ppi is wasted and merely increases the filesize.

None of which explains why the Word file size increases disproportionately when an image in inserted.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]