Word document to PDF - how to reduce PDF size further

Text only documents are harder to compress.

The main thing I can think of is styles.

Make an effort to find and replace manual formatting (ie bold, underline etc) with styles. That will eliminate the individual formatting codes.

If you display the style pane, you can find styles that are not used and delete them. If you have a lot of unused styles that will help.

Deleting Styles (manual)

http://wordribbon.tips.net/T010225_Deleting_Sty...

As documents evolve, so do your needs for various styles. You may create new ones and, invariably, old ones need to be abandoned. At some time you’ll want to delete a previously created style; the information in this tip makes the housecleaning chore a breeze.

Deleting a Large Number of Styles (manual) http://wordribbon.tips.net/T009653_Deleting_a_L...

Styles are a fantastic tool for formatting documents. As you work with documents created by others, you may want to get rid of a bunch of styles all at once. Here’s how you can make short work of eliminating those unwanted styles.

Finding Unused Styles http://word.tips.net/T001488_Finding_Unused_Sty...

Use this VBA macro to determine which styles are being used in the current document. ... determine which styles you could easily delete, simply because they are no longer needed. There is no intrinsic way to create an unused style list in Word. WT MR Macros

Getting Rid of Variant Styles http://wordribbon.tips.net/T007834_Getting_Rid_...

If you use the Styles task pane, you may have noticed that it can list more than just styles. It also lists variants of styles, and those variants can really clutter up what you see in the task pane. Here’s why those variants appear and what you can do to get rid of them.

Determining How Many Styles are Available

http://wordribbon.tips.net/T013190_Determining_...

Got a macro that processes or uses styles? You definitely need to know how many styles Word has available in the document. Use the Count property of the Styles collection to determine the figure.

get a list of styles in a document

Word lets us down when it comes to viewing a documents styles and how they link together. The only way to see a detailed list of styles is to Print them! In the print pane, choose the print what list and you’ll see the little known ‘Styles’ option.

Cleaning Up a Document that Mixes Styles with Explicit Formatting http://wordribbon.tips.net/T006273_Cleaning_Up_...

Need to get rid of direct, explicit formatting applied to a document? Here’s an easy way to do it using familiar Word tools.

Programmatically Limiting Styles in Word https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericwhite/2010...

Authoring in Word makes publishing systems very user friendly. After the user authors his or her paper, you can transform Open XML WordprocessingML to the desired output format. Some publishing systems use an approach of limiting the paragraph and character styles that the author can use. This can help in writing a more deterministic transform to the output format. Alternatively, you can provide a resilient transform that implements some reasonable approach for handling user-defined styles, but this may lead to confusion on the part of the author if the behavior was not what was expected. But if you decide to limit styles, there are (at least) three approaches .

XML Hacking: Managing Styles http://www.brandwares.com/bestpractices/2015/12...

Are you managing styles in your Word documents? A hallmark of a professionally-created template is the appearance of the Quick Style Gallery. If I open a template and see this:

I realize the person who constructed the file doesn’t know better or doesn’t care. The clue are the 4 zombie styles on the right side. If you expand the gallery, you’ll see 8 more zombie styles. These 12 are automatically generated in every new installation of Word. Nobody uses them, they just clutter the interface. If you’re managing styles, you’ll make them disappear.

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