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stressed for motivation and achievement2006-02-23
Word docs and attachment bloat
At work, I’ve got a ridiculous mailbox size limit of around 22MB. Receive a few Powerpoints and I’m unable to send email until I permanently delete a load first. Ironically, I’m also sent further large emails telling me to clear out my inbox. Sucks, no?
It doesn’t help that so many people send Word docs as attachments either. Even when you can’t reference a document sitting in source control or elsewhere on the network (thereby avoiding the use of attachments), you’re better off using a format other than Word.
Today, for example, I received a 224KB, text-only Word document. Upon saving it as a .txt file, its size fell to 5KB. What the hell are these people putting in their docs that causes such bloat?! I’m sure it’s not inherent in the .DOC format. In fact, to prove it, I copied and pasted the contents of the 224KB doc into a new document and saved it. Its size? 33KB. And that’s with all formatting intact. Anyone know what’s going on?
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