"Jose" wrote in message
et...
with the addition of the .jpg, naturally it will increase the file size.

My experience is that adding a 30K JPG increases the file size of a word
document by something like 600K. I have no idea why, but this is typical
for Microsoft Word.

I disagree that it is typical generally. I use embedded images in Word all
the time, and see no such bloat.

The expansion you're seeing could happen if for some reason the uncompressed
image was saved instead of the original JPEG data. Why your particular
instance of Word is doing this, I don't know...perhaps you're inserting the
image through a copy-paste operation from some other application, where Word
doesn't have access to the original JPEG data? But I can assure you that
normally, adding a JPEG file to a Word document doesn't involve an increase
in the file size beyond the actual size of the file.

Pete