File Preview increases the Size of Word Document

These days chances are that if you are working in MS Word 2000, the document most probably contains an image or a few images. If a word document is opened up in MS word, there is a feature of enabling preview for the document. This can be found under File> properties and then by clicking on the Summary tab, as indicated in the screens.

This feature is simply activated by placing the tick next to 'Save preview picture', followed by clicking on OK and Exiting the Saving the document. However a point to remember is that although this can be a useful feature for some, it most definitely increases the file size - by at least 10 times. For instance, in the above example the size of the document is about 40KB, but once the option of file preview is ticked the same document is over 480KB in size.