Jim,

I felt it was appropriate to post that question here because the difference
in size is due to the graphs being copied from different versions of Excel. I
don't think it's a Word problem, Excel is embedding something different or
additional in the enhanced metafile. The docx format has the same behavior.

John

"Jim Rech" wrote:

... As to the Word
file size that's news to me but this is an Excel NG. Have you tried the new
DOCX format?