emailing word attachments

[kojak69]

I cant email the above due to it being too large (8mb).How do I make it smaller, so I can send it.
I've tried 'zipping' it which did nothing. Its only a letter. Help.

[Fer]

Have you got any images in the document, or letterhead? Perhaps saving as RTF may help, or get someone to convert it to PDF.

HTH,
C

[.Markski]

an 8MB Letter!

Has it got pictures in it? You could try compressing them down to reduce size.

[_dobbo_]

8mb for a letter?!

Does it have any images in it - if so, these will likely be the culprit. Can you remove the images?

[kojak69]

.Markski said:

an 8MB Letter! Has it got pictures in it? You could try compressing them down to reduce size.

No.

Theres hardly any text at all.

I've scanned the letter, and its come out at 7.21mb. Is this classed as a 'photo'?

>> Edited by kojak69 on Wednesday 4th August 13:23

[d-man]

kojak69 said:

I've scanned the letter, and its come out at 7.21mb. Is this classed as a 'photo'?

Are you saying that you scanned a letter and then put it into a word doc? If so then the scanned image is just a big picture in word, it just happens to be a picture of a letter. That will be why your word doc is so big.

[trooper1212]

d-man said:

Are you saying that you scanned a letter and then put it into a word doc? If so then the scanned image is just a big picture in word, it just happens to be a picture of a letter. That will be why your word doc is so big.

Yep, do you have to have a specific copy of the letter, as re-typing is seems a better bet.

Word is extremely bloatmungus though, Type the same text document in Word and in OpenOffice. The word document will come out at over a meg, the openoffice document will be under 50kb.

[kojak69]

trooper1212 said:

d-man said: Are you saying that you scanned a letter and then put it into a word doc? If so then the scanned image is just a big picture in word, it just happens to be a picture of a letter. That will be why your word doc is so big. Yep, do you have to have a specific copy of the letter, as re-typing is seems a better bet. Word is extremely bloatmungus though, Type the same text document in Word and in OpenOffice. The word document will come out at over a meg, the openoffice document will be under 50kb.

Yes I have to have the original letter, as it has a clients signature on it.

[Fer]

kojak69 said:

Yes I have to have the original letter, as it has a clients signature on it.

Are you saying that you scanned a letter and then put it into a word doc? If so then the scanned image is just a big picture in word, it just happens to be a picture of a letter. That will be why your word doc is so big.


>> Edited by Fer on Wednesday 4th August 14:32

[Big Al.]

When you scanned in the Word document what format did you save it in, a bitmap (BMP)? If so try to save again as a JPG. Also reduce the scanning resolution.

[anonymous-user]

Also, just try sending the image, don't bother putting it into the Word doc first as that will bloat the size considerably.

[kojak69]

I'll have a play. Cheers.