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"Jose" wrote in message
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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

Jose wrote in
et:

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 once had a Christmas letter
I made - two pages, ten pictures, it was too big to send to
Microsoft itself.

I don't know what version of MS Word you're using but my experiences
with imbedded images shows a slight bump over the image size (but a
factor of 20? ... never happened).

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Jose wrote:

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 once had a Christmas letter I made -
two pages, ten pictures, it was too big to send to Microsoft itself.

Jose

I found that you should not do any editing of a .jpg in the word
document. The file size will increase greatly. Get the .jpg like you
want it first. Also, in MSWord, turn off Allow Fast Saves under
Tools/Options. That increases file sizes.. I write a EAA newsletter and
found this out the hard way.

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