Word + watermark image + text = big file

I've created a Word template that has a 72 dpi (low res) full-page watermark image set in the background. This document, with no text or anything, is 76 kb.

If I paste in a couple pages of text and save it on a PC, it balloons up to almost 2 megs. If I flow in the same copy and save it on a Mac, the filesize is only 92 kb. The two files are exactly the same except for the fact that one is saved on a PC (I've tried with both Word XP and Word 2000) and one is saved on the Mac.

So why would the file size expand that much on the PC? Is the PC having to duplicate the watermark for each page, thus bumping the filesize up?

m19

 

To test a bit more, I took the 2 MB file and saved it as a PDF, with the resulting file ending up at a nicely tiny 60 kb. Something's up, and Word's at fault... I just can't figure out why.

m19

 

How big is the "Watermark" file itself?

 

116 kb.

(How a Word document with a 116 kb image file ends up being just over 70 kb before doing anything else, I don't know...)

m19

 

Anyone?

m19

 

I really do not have a clue, without more info. As to what is also being packaged with the file. I have the same file on my machine saved as both a .dot, and a .doc, and both are the same. So I am thinking that there is somthing else being packaged with the file on your machine.

 

Have you checked to see if you are embedding fonts in your document? Click on Tools, Options, Save and see if there is a check mark beside Embed TrueType fonts.