That would be my guess.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kevin Layne" <kal at crcmn.com>
Reply-To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Date:  Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:50:30 -0600

>The word doc stores one copy of the image to display in each cell where the
>oo document stores multiple copies of the image?  just my guess...  are
>there 10 cells?
>kevin
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Samuel MacDonald" <smac at visi.com>
>To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:29 PM
>Subject: [TCLUG] (OT) This is just to weird.
>
>
>> I created a document using Word 97 (I'm not buying another M$ license)
>> The document is a table with business card size cells (for business cards)
>>
>> It has a graphic in each of the cells
>> It has 2 bullet points
>> It has 2 different fonts, some bold.
>> No color.
>>
>> Standard information for a business card.
>>
>> As a word doc it's 671k, for one page, it has a graphic on each card.
>>
>> I opened it in OO Writer and saved it as an OO Writer "sxw" file, it's
>> 6,724k !
>> OUCH that's a bit large for one page, over 6.5 megabytes!
>>
>> Anyone know why this happened or is this normal behavior form Open
>> Office. Opening this document from a LAN drive is very painful.  It
>> prints great but the size is larger then expected.
>>
>> Sam.
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