>> I am using Word97. Today I tried to save (using File-Save As) the following
>> small document to floppy drive A. When I reopen the document later I was
>> surprised to find that  Word generated a lot of extras to my original
>> document. At the beginning it added "bjbjt+t+", then following the paragraph
>> I typed, Word generated all those words starting with "Normal..."

DG>   Word's .DOC file format is an instance of OLE2/COM/ActiveX "Structured
DG> Storage"; internally, it implements something a bit like a small file system,
DG> containing all sorts of stuff besides your document text -- formatting info,
DG> footnotes, annotations, document summary, embedded fonts, pictures, links to
DG> other documents.  The list goes on and on and on.

It is possible (?) that Word didn't have enough space to store all
those and didn't notice, and then tries to read a defective file?
Compare file size on diskette and on the H.D.

DG>   Very often, when you edit a line of text, it grows a little and will no
DG> longer fit where it was.  Word will find somewhere else for it, and link it
DG> into the structure so the document still displays correctly -- but the
DG> original version is still there, and the .DOC file just grows.

This is called "FastSave". Occasionally, Word performs a "Full Save" -
reformats all of the document and places it in order; of course, this
takes time. You can set FastSave usage in Preferences somewhere. I can
sometimes see in the status : "Word is fast-saving MyDocument56287..."

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