Reducing pdf size - compressing images

I have a word document with a lot of images. the doc has 2.3 mega but the pdf gets around 8.5 mega; I've tried many settings in Adobe PDF but I cannot reduce the pdf size;
thank you

If you are using WORD 2003 or later, you can click on one of the images to get the format menu, select compress in the lower left corner, and compress the graphics in the WORD file. If you want to keep the original, do this on a copy (good idea anyway) and then create the PDF using the Adobe PDF printer. You may be getting the size due to features added by PDF Maker if you are using that.
Within Acrobat, your options are either FILE>Reduce File Size or the PDF Optimizer. You can also just print to a new PDF. A lot depends on how you created the PDF and you provided no info there. Also, what OS and version of Acrobat?

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Were the versions split up @ version 6 Bill ? I stand to be corrected if so; but my memory serves that this wasn't until version 7 ...
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