I have recently had a few problems with Word so finally decided to try OpenOffice. Can any one explain the following phenomenon.
I have a 45 page Word document which takes up 10,289 KB on my hard disk. I load it into OpenOffice and immediately save it in Open Office Text (odt) format the file size on my hard disk is 69 KB. As far as I can tell there are no changes in the document itself so the bloat associated with the doc file must be something else. I check versions and I have one previously saved versions so I delete it and save again, The doc file now comes in at 305 KB.
Is this normal - the massive bloat associated with a saved version?
Why is odt format so efficient compared to doc format and does it happen with all documents or is this just a special case?
I have a 45 page Word document which takes up 10,289 KB on my hard disk. I load it into OpenOffice and immediately save it in Open Office Text (odt) format the file size on my hard disk is 69 KB. As far as I can tell there are no changes in the document itself so the bloat associated with the doc file must be something else. I check versions and I have one previously saved versions so I delete it and save again, The doc file now comes in at 305 KB.
Is this normal - the massive bloat associated with a saved version?
Why is odt format so efficient compared to doc format and does it happen with all documents or is this just a special case?