Trimming a Word Document?
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Let's say I have a ... let's call her DU (Dumb User). Now, if DU was just your average person you have to support from time to time you'd tell the person to learn the tools and leave you alone (maybe you'd do it nicer than that) but this DU is a high ranking manager. DU does things a certain way. She's older and not very tech savy but isn't going to spend time learning how to do things properly and to suggest she do so... is a bad idea. Now, DU has a document she's been working on for a long time. This document is 28 pages long, using Microsoft Word 2003. It's also almost 26MB in size. DU does not understand the concept behind different image formats, how Word embeds and scales these images, etc. DU wants an image, drag/drop, copy/paste, or insert image... if she wants a snippet from a Microsoft Excel sheet, she just copies all the cells right into the document. DU doesn't actually NEED the cells in her document, just the data, but DU doesn't understand the difference. So... we now have a massive, mission critical document, that every time she wants to email this document (which is often) is a 25MB attachment, because DU doesn't understand compression, and truthfully, the person on the receiving end of this document... we'll call him DU2 is also blissfully unaware of most things computer related, including what a zip file is. Does anyone know of some tools that might be available to automatically scan a Word document and ... convert the embedded pieces into manageable sizes to "trim" the document for them? That way I could just "fix" it without spending the next few hours manually correcting every image or insert in that.
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Let's say I have a ... let's call her DU (Dumb User). Now, if DU was just your average person you have to support from time to time you'd tell the person to learn the tools and leave you alone (maybe you'd do it nicer than that) but this DU is a high ranking manager. DU does things a certain way. She's older and not very tech savy but isn't going to spend time learning how to do things properly and to suggest she do so... is a bad idea. Now, DU has a document she's been working on for a long time. This document is 28 pages long, using Microsoft Word 2003. It's also almost 26MB in size. DU does not understand the concept behind different image formats, how Word embeds and scales these images, etc. DU wants an image, drag/drop, copy/paste, or insert image... if she wants a snippet from a Microsoft Excel sheet, she just copies all the cells right into the document. DU doesn't actually NEED the cells in her document, just the data, but DU doesn't understand the difference. So... we now have a massive, mission critical document, that every time she wants to email this document (which is often) is a 25MB attachment, because DU doesn't understand compression, and truthfully, the person on the receiving end of this document... we'll call him DU2 is also blissfully unaware of most things computer related, including what a zip file is. Does anyone know of some tools that might be available to automatically scan a Word document and ... convert the embedded pieces into manageable sizes to "trim" the document for them? That way I could just "fix" it without spending the next few hours manually correcting every image or insert in that.
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Let's say I have a ... let's call her DU (Dumb User). Now, if DU was just your average person you have to support from time to time you'd tell the person to learn the tools and leave you alone (maybe you'd do it nicer than that) but this DU is a high ranking manager. DU does things a certain way. She's older and not very tech savy but isn't going to spend time learning how to do things properly and to suggest she do so... is a bad idea. Now, DU has a document she's been working on for a long time. This document is 28 pages long, using Microsoft Word 2003. It's also almost 26MB in size. DU does not understand the concept behind different image formats, how Word embeds and scales these images, etc. DU wants an image, drag/drop, copy/paste, or insert image... if she wants a snippet from a Microsoft Excel sheet, she just copies all the cells right into the document. DU doesn't actually NEED the cells in her document, just the data, but DU doesn't understand the difference. So... we now have a massive, mission critical document, that every time she wants to email this document (which is often) is a 25MB attachment, because DU doesn't understand compression, and truthfully, the person on the receiving end of this document... we'll call him DU2 is also blissfully unaware of most things computer related, including what a zip file is. Does anyone know of some tools that might be available to automatically scan a Word document and ... convert the embedded pieces into manageable sizes to "trim" the document for them? That way I could just "fix" it without spending the next few hours manually correcting every image or insert in that.
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Yes, but then I think either DU or DU2 would complain about the fact their document was now 0 MB :)
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Let's say I have a ... let's call her DU (Dumb User). Now, if DU was just your average person you have to support from time to time you'd tell the person to learn the tools and leave you alone (maybe you'd do it nicer than that) but this DU is a high ranking manager. DU does things a certain way. She's older and not very tech savy but isn't going to spend time learning how to do things properly and to suggest she do so... is a bad idea. Now, DU has a document she's been working on for a long time. This document is 28 pages long, using Microsoft Word 2003. It's also almost 26MB in size. DU does not understand the concept behind different image formats, how Word embeds and scales these images, etc. DU wants an image, drag/drop, copy/paste, or insert image... if she wants a snippet from a Microsoft Excel sheet, she just copies all the cells right into the document. DU doesn't actually NEED the cells in her document, just the data, but DU doesn't understand the difference. So... we now have a massive, mission critical document, that every time she wants to email this document (which is often) is a 25MB attachment, because DU doesn't understand compression, and truthfully, the person on the receiving end of this document... we'll call him DU2 is also blissfully unaware of most things computer related, including what a zip file is. Does anyone know of some tools that might be available to automatically scan a Word document and ... convert the embedded pieces into manageable sizes to "trim" the document for them? That way I could just "fix" it without spending the next few hours manually correcting every image or insert in that.
I think you actually need a DU trimmer.