Ever had the situation where you have a nice small Word doc, eg less than 200k, and you add a small graphic to it – eg less than 100k, you save the file, and check the file size and find it has grown to something significantly larger than the sum of its parts – eg 8MB?
Here’s the explanation from Microsoft Support …
Document file size increases with EMF, PNG, GIF, or JPEG graphics in Word
As per the article, “This functionality is by design in Microsoft Word. If an EMF, a PNG, a GIF, or a JPEG graphic is inserted into a Word document, when the document is saved, two copies of the graphic are saved in the document. Graphics are saved in the applicable EMF, PNG, GIF, or JPEG format and are also converted to WMF (Windows Metafile) format.”
The fix, should you require it, is a registry change in the Word\Options area of the HKEY_Current_User hive. Check the link for the exact location and setting. If running Office 2013 you’ll be looking for:
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