<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks for all the suggestions. <br><br>In one "bloated" file I found a logo graphic in the master pages which was an OLE link to an unkown directory. I successfully changed that to a more suitable (smaller) file imported by reference. However in another "bloated" file I can't find the OLE object, so I can't delete it. I will try the MIF-roundtrip idea with this file, but not today, as there is a small matter of "deadlines" to address first...<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 July 2014 22:30, Zimmerman, Gary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gary.Zimmerman@teradata.com" target="_blank">Gary.Zimmerman@teradata.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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empty of graphics and other objects now, just a few pages of text, but it still "weighs in" at 22MB (other files with the same template are a few hundred KB).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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