27th January 2000

Coming from the "Larger Than Large" department, Lockergnomaniac Vadim Schnoll helps eliminate wasted space. Some of us rely on Microsoft's Office applications to get us through the day. I'm hooked on Outlook 2000 (Internet only), and Word is always a shortcut away. I've got more DOCs on my hard drive than I'd care to count. Have you ever noticed that many Word documents edited with O97 or O2k are (perceivably unnecessarily) bloated? Yeah, take a look. That's what happens when you have the "fast save" feature enabled. With each revision, the file size increases (no matter how much of it you delete). To put a DOC on a diet, open it, then use the 'Save As' option. A new document is created, and its size may shrink considerably.