Export to MS Office 2000 creat huge documents

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#1

To be able to share information with other that are stuck with MS product I must export some docs to those formats.

I have a document of 1M odf format, when I save it to Office 2000 format it grows to 20Mb…

I am running 11.2, KDE 4.3.1, repositories are as follow, and I have switched all system packages to the comunity repository of OOo (v3.1.1)

#  | Alias                                       | Nom                                                 | Activé | Rafraîchir
---+---------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+--------+-----------
1  | 11.2                                        | NVidia                                              | Oui    | Oui
2  | IBM_Lotus_Notes_8.5                         | IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1                               | Oui    | Non
3  | IBM_Lotus_Notes_8.5_1                       | IBM Lotus Notes 8.5                                 | Non    | Non
4  | download.opensuse.org-2.28                  | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:STABLE:2.28           | Oui    | Oui
5  | download.opensuse.org-Backports             | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports               | Oui    | Oui
6  | download.opensuse.org-STABLE                | openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org              | Oui    | Oui
7  | download.opensuse.org-VirtualBox            | openSUSE BuildService - Virtualisation (VirtualBox) | Oui    | Oui
8  | download.opensuse.org-Wine                  | openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS Builds             | Oui    | Oui
9  | download.opensuse.org-mozilla               | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla                     | Oui    | Oui
10 | download.opensuse.org-oss                   | Dépôt principal (Sources)                           | Oui    | Oui
11 | download.opensuse.org-php                   | openSUSE BuildService - PHP                         | Oui    | Oui
12 | download.opensuse.org-standard              | Dépôt principal (Contrib)                           | Oui    | Oui
13 | download.opensuse.org-webcam                | openSUSE BuildService - Pilotes pour webcams        | Oui    | Oui
14 | download.videolan.org-SuSE                  | VideoLan Repository                                 | Oui    | Oui
15 | ftp.skynet.be-suse                          | Packman Repository                                  | Oui    | Oui
16 | http-download.opensuse.org-ec4612cf         | Mises à jour pour openSUSE 11.2-0                   | Oui    | Oui
17 | openSUSE_11.2                               | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:KDE43                   | Oui    | Oui
18 | openSUSE_11.2-0                             | openSUSE 11.2-DVD-ISO                               | Oui    | Non
19 | openSUSE_BuildService_-_KDE:KDE43:Community | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:KDE43:Community         | Oui    | Oui
20 | repo-debug                                  | openSUSE-11.2-Debug                                 | Non    | Oui
21 | repo-non-oss                                | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss                               | Oui    | Oui
22 | repo-oss                                    | openSUSE-11.2-Oss                                   | Oui    | Oui

On my laptop that stil runs 11.1, I make the same thing and documents stil grow, but from 1M to 1.1M…

Anybody has an idea of what is happening here ?

#2

odt is a compressed format and so will always be smaller than any MS format other than .docx which is also a compressed format.

I tend to find MS text files are anything from 50-100% larger but, if there are any graphics in them, even quite small files can become very large. I have a friend who frequently sends me very short MS files with graphics in them that are 4-5Mb in size.

The other possible cause is embedded files which can make an MS file much larger than the equivalent odt file.

However, 1Mb to 20Mb is a greater degree of expansion than I have ever encountered.