I've tried this on multiple computers with Word 2013 and 2010. 2010 works fine and no reported issues on earlier versions.

Word 2013 Compress pictures does a terrible job on .docx, dotx and dotm files.
Compress all images might make a 90mb file go to 70mb on 220ppi.

Now if i save the file as a .dot or .dotx file and compress to 200ppi the file will change to 1.5MB (about 50 times smaller)

Apart from the space used (backup's etc) file sizes this large are very slow to work on, save and load. Need this fixed.

As a work around I've asked the client to save files as .dot or .doc. But needs to work with the new file types.

Called microsoft support and they apparently logged it, but went to the techs to test it and the useless tech was rude and just hung up.

Hi,

Thanks for feeding back to us, its very valuable and for us.

To isolated the issue, do you mind sending me a sample document which has been reduced size by 50 times though mail to: ibsofc@microsoft.com, was this happening to particular type of pictures?

If your concerning time consuming during editing, we can simply disable the compress option in: file->option->advance->image size and quality -> do not compress image in this file. After done with editing, we can compress the pictures manually.

Any random pictures worked. I was helping the client with a certian template, then tried it on a different computer with randomly picked large images.

We are trying to compress the word file as much as we can. .docx does not compress much at all. .doc compresses very well.

Hi,

Thanks for clarifying the issue. So for same document, if it is .doc type, the file size reduce more, right? Which is indeed abnormal. As .docx type of file should be smaller. It is basically a ZIP file wrapper.

I tested one file from my side, compress the picture both from 220 ppi to 96 ppi. The .docx file reduced from 16.5 MB to 7.71 MB. The .doc file size was from 16.5 MB to 8.58 MB

Is it possible we compress the file with output resolution as 150 ppi or 96 ppi,  It will be able to reduce the file size around 50%.

It will be really helpful if you could send a sample to me with mail: ibsofc@microsoft.com.

Thanks for your understanding.

Thats right.

We are trying to keep a higher (around 200-220) ppi.

So if i use 220ppi on docx a 70mb file may go to around 50mb.

The same file saved as .doc would compress from 70mb to around 1.5-2mb.

This only seems to effect Word 2013.

I do have a computer here at the moment with office 2013. So will do this for you tomorrow. Cheers

Tried it on a brand new install on a different computer and it worked fine. I'll have to do it at my clients again and send through the details.

Tried it on a brand new install on a different computer and it worked fine. I'll have to do it at my clients again and send through the details.

• Proposed as answer by Chloe WangMicrosoft employee, Moderator Monday, March 23, 2015 1:28 AM
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Tried it on a brand new install on a different computer and it worked fine. I'll have to do it at my clients again and send through the details.

• Proposed as answer by Chloe WangMicrosoft employee, Moderator Monday, March 23, 2015 1:28 AM
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Thanks a lot for the update, please keep me post.

Mind if I join the conversation?  I have tried everything i know how to get WORD 2013 to save the "preferred" image format of 220ppi or even 150ppi.  The reason being that we send out brochures as emailed word docx attachments and they cant be sent as they exceed 25Mb.  Reducing this to an acceptable size is easy enough if done on every document but often people forget and the email gets returned as too large

If i could set this to be always at 220 (preferably 150 as we only need the images to be mailable, not high res photo quality).  I have tried to save this setting as a default every way I can find but every new document always starts out as though I never saved anything.   Is there a registry setting or do i need to modify the normal.dotm or other?

  I have tried to save this setting as a default every way I can find but every new document always starts out as though I never saved anything.  

Hi,

Do you mean that even if you set "Set defualt target output to:" to 150 ppi, when you close and start Word, it will change back to 220 ppi?

If this is the case, select "All New Documents" when you save the change. The next time you lunch Word, it will keep the change you saved last time.

If I misunderstood anything, please let me know. Thank you.