Folks don't send me .doc files.
They are too big to [store] publish, download or upload.
Please have the .doc file on the screen, then press "Print Scrn"
key on the upper right of your key board. Then run
"All Programs > Accessories > Paint" and then select
"Edit > Paste". The doc file will appear in MS Paint.
Then Save As whatever file-name.jpg.
Send the jpg's.
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Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Are you talking about .docs that only have formatted text?
Screenshots are smaller than .docs? Amazing.. How about
do a Save As, file type .txt?
Matt-
Scrn shots are not initially smaller than doc files with just
pictures in them but I have a fast cropping program that gets rid
of the extraneous border so they become the same size or smaller
than the initial jpg. MS Paint will also crop the scrn shots.
The second factor I forgot to mention is browsers and email
program do not automatically (or otherwise for that matter) view
doc files unlike jpg's. Therefore doc files are not an Internet
standard.
If there is just plain text in your doc file that should
be exported and sent as plain text. That is always a lot smaller
than a doc file. MS Word style formating has no value on this
newsletter. Doc files consume hard disk space at prodigious
rate.
If you can't do it any other way then send the doc file as a last
resort and I will take it apart and convert it to plain text
and jpg's. It is a lot of extra work for me.
BTW Here is a tip. The free ThunderBird email program saves all
messages as concatenated plain text. It is possible to load a
Thunderbird email folder into any editor and rapidly search for
any word, phrase or character much MUCH faster (10 or 20 times
faster in the case of the Linux "joe" Word Star clone editor)
than any browser or email program I have found so far in 30 years
of using micro computers or PC's.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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