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I’ve just had a client approach me with a 60MB word document with only a few pages in it!   It turns out that the document had a lot of high-res photos in it.    

The photos didn’t need to be high res, so I started looking at how to convert them.   As there were so many I didn’t really want to export each image, compress it and then import it again.

I then found that there’s an easy way to compress all images in a document from within Word!  

In Word 2007, select the Format Tab, and then there’s a “Compress Pictures” option.   You can then apply this to a single picture or to all pictures.

The document size went from 60MB to 900KB – a huge difference!

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Strange one this one!   Looks like there’s an MS update that causes problems with Word 2007.   The symptom this time was that you can’t click anywhere in a Word window – although everything else seemed to work ok?

Turns out – to fix it, you need to remove/rename the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data

This is documented in KB 940791:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940791

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