Hi Tim, what do you mean by "a package thing?" 

On 1 Aug 2014, at 07:12, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Hmmm, that's interesting.  Not sure but I don't believe that it really 
> matters either.  The sizes you're speaking of are minuscule.  When you talk 
> of files being in the KB range, there's nothing at all to be concerned about. 
>  I tested like you and had a .DOCX file that I changed into a .Pages file 
> which changed it from 127 KB to 219 KB.  Pages does tend to kind of do a 
> package thing for it's files and this may be what causes the difference.
> 
> Later...
> 
> Tim Kilburn
> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
> 
> On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Daniel McGee <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all, was wondering why when one creates a pages document, why they are so 
>> much larger in file size compared to other doc formats.
>> 
>>>>>> To put this into perspective for you, I have created a word document 
>>>>>> with text edit called "new books requests.docx" This 1st document, file 
>>>>>> size was only 4KB 
>> 
>> However, when I created it in a pages format just to compare, the size 
>> jumped up to 129KB
>> 
>> Quite a difference Don't you think? Anyway, was just curious why this is so 
>> and is there any possible ways of getting file sizes with the pages format 
>> smaller?
>> 
>> Its not a big deal but it seems pretty extreme for just a document format if 
>> you know what I mean. The most I have ever seen with a word document at 
>> least, with in my experience ranges from: 20KB to 30KB possibly 40KB. But 
>> certainly not within the realms of the 3 digit numbers! lol
>> 
>> Thanks all for any feedback with this and remember, its not a big deal but 
>> more out of curiosity.
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
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