Ira,

Save the files as GIF it's the smallest file size format.  If you need
more details then reread the answers from the question you asked last
week.

If you change the file type to DOC you still will not be able to edit the
file.  Changing the file name or extension does not change the kind of
file or the contents.  It is only a "picture".  You need to read your
scanner manual and/or the help files to find out more about OCR -optical
character recognition.

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ira Wallin <[log in to unmask]>


>I want to catalogue lots of personal documents by scanning them in and
storing
>them in directories.   In what format should I save them.....bmp?  gif?
jpg?
>something else?  It doesn't seem I should use .doc even for all text,
since I
>do not want to edit them at all.

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