It seems that it was the version of OpenOffice that was the issue. A little 13 KB.doc file saved by OO.org 2.0 becomes a 26 KB file when saved by MS Office 2003. Then I upgraded to OO.org 2.1, and tried again. This time the very same document grew to a whopping 72 KB. Clearly something is very different about the.doc exporters in 2.0 and 2.1 -- I wonder what gives.
For comparison, the.odt produced by 2.0 and 2.1 from this document is about 10 KB.
It's interesting you should say that, because I found the exact opposite to be true. This may be a matter of the specific versions of MS Office involved, but I've found that every document I save in.xls or.doc format magically grows to 1.5x or double the OpenOffice size when I use MS Office. Your mileage may vary.
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It seems that it was the version of OpenOffice that was the issue. A little 13 KB .doc file saved by OO.org 2.0 becomes a 26 KB file when saved by MS Office 2003. Then I upgraded to OO.org 2.1, and tried again. This time the very same document grew to a whopping 72 KB. Clearly something is very different about the .doc exporters in 2.0 and 2.1 -- I wonder what gives.
.odt produced by 2.0 and 2.1 from this document is about 10 KB.
For comparison, the
It's interesting you should say that, because I found the exact opposite to be true. This may be a matter of the specific versions of MS Office involved, but I've found that every document I save in .xls or .doc format magically grows to 1.5x or double the OpenOffice size when I use MS Office. Your mileage may vary.