Some of your images may have a high ppi (pixels per inch) when imported in a Word document, which results in a large Word-file. There are several possible causes:
When printing the Word file on paper, this high ppi count and extra data is not very useful. Furthermore, the images can slow down your document considerably.
To reduce the file size of your Word document, follow these steps:
If you save the altered document, the original document will be lost.