Compress Word files quickly and reliably.
Word compressor for Windows and Mac. Makes it easy to reduce Word file size. Simple to use and brilliant quality — it’s the only Word file compressor you’ll ever need.
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“I can highly recommend Neuxpower to compress very large Word documents with extensive graphics. I've found the documents compress better than PDF converters, and moreover, the documents can be edited in track changes.”
— Henry Hudson
Word compressor features
Compress Word file more than 100mb
Our Word Compressor has no maximum file size limits — so you can compress 50mb, 200mb or larger files with ease.
Offline Word compressor
Compress DOC/DOCX files on your local Windows or Mac computer, without the need for an Internet connection. It's 100% offline software.
Compress Word for Email
Sending files as attachments? Automatically reduce doc size with our Microsoft Outlook integration. No more bounce back or exceeding mailbox limits.
MS Office integration
Compress Word document size from within Word. Just save your file then use optimize in the Add-Ins tab located in the ribbon.
Optional Zip Compression
See your Word files reduced by up to 95% before selecting additional zip compression from the results screen to zip files together.
Drag & Drop compressor
With our Word minimizer there’s no need to compress individual elements within your document, just drag and drop and optimize.
Windows or Mac
Shrink Word files straight from Explorer or Finder for maximum ease. Simply right-click a file and choose from the optimization options.
Compress Multiple Word Files
Save time and effort compressing multiple documents, shrink up to 10,000 Word files at once.
Compress Word to 100kb
Many applications require DOCX files to be 300kb, 200kb, 100kb or below to stay under set sending limits.
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— Pablo Badilla
How to compress DOC/DOCX files in four simple steps
Steps
Install the NXPowerLite Desktop Word compressor software.
Drag your PowerPoint file onto the NXPowerLite icon.
Hit the 'Optimize' button to reduce file size.
NXPowerLite will compress and deliver you a smaller Word file.
How the Word compressor works
Microsoft Word files contain an abundance of content that can be optimized; from oversized images and old fast save information to hidden data in embedded objects. NXPowerLite can selectively optimize each of these elements within the files to create leaner, smaller documents.
Image resizing
Images are often inserted into Microsoft® Word documents at much larger sizes than necessary. For example, a photograph taken by a digital camera might contain ten million or more pixels, but most of this detail will not be visible unless ‘zoom’ controls are used. NXPowerLite can scale down such images by a configurable amount. For example, if NXPowerLite is configured to optimize Word files for viewing at 1600x1200 pixels (the default setting), any images which fill an entire slide and are larger than 1600x1200 pixels will be scaled down to 1600x1200 pixels (sufficient for nearly all viewing and printing purposes).
JPEG conversion & compression
NXPowerLite can convert certain types of image to JPEG format, which offers high compression levels but can affect image quality. NXPowerLite can also apply additional compression to images that are already in the JPEG format. The default setting (7) will result in a barely noticeable loss of quality, even at 100% zoom.
Metafile conversion
Word files often contain images in WMF (‘Windows Metafile’) and EMF (‘Enhanced Metafile’) formats, which are suitable for vector graphics but are highly inefficient for representing bitmapped images (e.g. screenshots or photographs). Wherever possible, NXPowerLite will convert such images to PNG or JPEG format depending on which is smaller.
Remove Word 2007 and earlier compatibility
For Word documents, when you set a shape to use a Picture as a background it will trigger a compatibility setting that creates two additional copies of the image you added. This is to support viewing in Word 2007 and earlier. As an example, if you add a single 1.5 MB image as a shape background to a blank Word document, it immediately inflates to become a 4.5 MB document.
NXPowerLite can remove the backward compatibility content, which will in many cases significantly reduce the Word file size.
Flatten embedded charts in DOCX
When you insert a chart into Word from Excel using the default paste option, you end up with a complete copy of the Excel file saved inside your document. This will happen again if you paste a second different chart in and so on. NXPowerLite can remove the complete Excel files from your document, leaving just the chart behind. Great for reducing size and also ensuring you don’t accidentally share any sensitive data.
Removes Word "fast save" information
Microsoft Word 2003 and earlier have the option to enable 'Fast saves'. This has the effect that in some cases, deleted or edited objects will not be removed from the Word file when changes are saved. NXPowerLite removes this 'fast save' information, preserving only the most recent edit. Previous edits are not available through Word’s user interface anyway, but forensic tools may be able to extract some historical information from a ‘fast saved’ file.
Removes unnecessary metadata
Some image file formats (e.g. PNG or JPEG) allow additional metadata to be embedded in the image file. For example, JPEG files created by a digital camera may contain EXIF information which indicates the type of camera used, where the photograph was shot and date that it was taken. NXPowerLite removes any data which is not required to display the image.
Flattens embedded objects
Embedded objects (e.g. an Excel® chart embedded in a Word document) are saved in Microsoft® Office files with two representations - a 'picture' representation and a 'native' representation. If NXPowerLite is configured to flatten embedded objects, it will remove the 'native' representation, which can significantly reduce the size of files, but flattened objects can no longer be edited in the application in which they were created.
If you want to check if your documents have embedded objects in them, use these instructions on finding embedded objects in Word.