This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C24B66.2324B1F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, yesterday at work, one of my co workers emailed me several MS = word documents created with MS word from Office XP Small Business = edition. Each file consisted of some text and 20 to 25 screen shots. = File sizes ranging from 450 to 800 K. I had no problem opening these in = Open Office running under linux. If I modified the files and saved them = in Open Office's native format, the file sizes remained about the same = size. If I saved them in MS Word format though, the file sizes went = through the roof. For example the 800K file went to about 25megs.=20 I haven't noticed this happening with files that contain only text, so I = think it hassomething to do with how Open office is storing the = graphics. Any Idea how to reduce the file size back to a manageable = level. I don't know how open office stores the graphics but hopefully = there is some way of modifyng the fle type. The purpose of this is to = create a training manual which will be used first by windows users and = then if all goes well, linux users. Charlie ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C24B66.2324B1F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable