Go to the File menu, choose ‘Print’ and in the dialogue box that pops up, click the ‘PDF’ Button that exists in the lower left hand corner.Ĭhoose ‘Save as PDF’, make a note of where you are saving it to, and boom, you have a PDF of your Word document. In the meantime, here you are, large document in hand, and wishing it were smaller.įirst, if it’s a Word document, save it as a PDF. But resizing images is probably a subject for another day. By and large, ‘large document’ issues that I’ve seen stem from the fact that people drop huge images into their Microsoft Word document and assume all will be well after they’ve dragged the image to the size they want – but Microsoft Word doesn’t do a great job at actually resizing the image, versus just displaying it as being smaller. On the other hand, you might want to get that file to someone, so what’s a good etiquette, fine form displaying individual to do?įirst, a note: you might have been able to avoid this eventuality by not using large images in your documents to begin with. This is bad etiquette, poor form, not done. Unless your document is so monstrous that you noticed its size because your computer started yelling at you, I’m glad you are being a conscientious citizen and not emailing 15mb files left and right, willy nilly.
First, I must congratulate you that you’ve noticed. I HAVE A GIANT WORD/PDF DOCUMENT HELP ME WHAT DO I DO. Reducing Word and PDF file size: automated.
