If you’ve stuck a bunch of enormous images into a word doc, you can apply image compression to reduce the file size.
Select File>Reduce File Size
![compression](https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/howto/files/2019/03/File_and_Menubar-14yvnee.jpg)
Select an image quality from the handy presets, then select ‘OK”
![image quality](https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/howto/files/2019/03/OtherViews_and_Compress_Pictures_and_Reduce_your_file_size_in_Office_for_Mac_-_Office_Support-1fe9rbs.jpg)
That’s it.
Who does this?
Hardly anyone, which is why some documents are so huge.