As a test, I tried formatting the doc to single spacing and the lines are unnaturally close together now. The normal double line spacing was wider than it is now so that’s why the document has shrunk. Even though I’ve uninstalled v5.4.6 and reinstalled the previous version the problem is still there. Somehow the double line spacing has changed width since I installed v5.4.6. The text size, line spacing, headers, footers and margins all seem to be the same. The strangest part of this problem is that when I open the document, LibreOffice reports 456 pages in the information bar and then, about a second later, the page number shrinks down to 362. I have created PDF’s of all my saved versions of this document so I can check them with the original. I even uninstalled v5.4.6 and reinstalled the previous version but the problem persists. I also tried resetting the line spacing to double just in case that had changed but it made no difference. I checked the word and character count and they have not changed. I opened older versions of the document which I know are fine but they also shrink down to approx 362 pages depending on the original word count. Is there another way to shrink the whole. I don't have a 50 scale option, rather it gives me options of sizes available. The lower the PPI, the more you will lower the file size of your Word document which will also decrease the image quality of the picture as well. Unfortunately my printer doesn't allow me to reduce the printing scale to smaller than this, but I need to reduce the A6 by half again. Click the radio button for the level of compression you want to use, ranging from HF (Maximum image size), (HD 330 PPI) to Email (96 PPI). The formatting doesn’t appear to have changed in the template but, nonetheless, the page count of the document keeps shrinking down to 362 pages. This has worked perfectly to reduce the document to A6 (half of A5). If you have Word 2007 or 2010 they will save a Word document as a docx file (rather than doc). I’m using a template I created myself which has worked perfectly over the years of numerous LibreOffice updates. Click on the Picture Tools menu (Top right of Word), then Select Compress Pictures in the Adjust group on the ribbon bar Choose Apply to All pictures in the document, and Ok Finding the problem images. After rebooting I opened my document and the page count was 456 pages as usual but within seconds it shrunk down to 362 pages. if Dussander had an old buddy from the camps, or just an old Nazi buddy, why did he bother. After installing v5.4.6 I was told to reboot which I did. This word document was downloaded from / please remain this.