Staring deep into your MS Word files!

I had many images in my 50-page word file, but compressing the images didn’t reduce it’s size down from 29 MBs. After searching and searching, I learned that I can open an MS Word document with Winrar. Winrar shows a folder structure and the files that make up the word document e.g. images, text, formats, and embedded excel files.

A large excel file was the problem in my case. I had only used one sheet of my 18 MB excel file to create a graph, but MS word had embedded the whole file. I open the embedded Excel file from Winrar’s folder, removed all the irrelevant sheets, and saved the Excel file. Winrar asked if I wanted to update the file and I did want to do so. Voila! My Word document was now only about 6 MB large!