Office 2007 Files Triple in Size When Saved as Office 2003 Files

Everytime I save any Office 2007 file as an Office 2003 file it triples, or
more, in size. How do I stop that?

RickB wrote:
> Everytime I save any Office 2007 file as an Office 2003 file it
> triples, or more, in size. How do I stop that?

You probably can't stop it.

Office 2007 files are really zip files containing XML and other contents.
Because they're zip files, they're automatically compressed, typically to
25% of the size of the expanded contents.

The Office 2003 format is not compressed at all. If you want to compare
apples and apples, zip the 2003 file -- the result will probably still be
larger than the 2007 equivalent, but the difference won't be so dramatic.

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