4.6.1 Components and document size

We compared the sizes of Office documents with and without embedded components. Unsurprisingly, documents with embedded components are significantly larger. For example, the average size of Word documents with components is 557.28 KB, relative to an average of 112.32 KB for documents without components. PowerPoint and Excel documents show similar trends: PowerPoint documents average 1334.43 KB with components and 493.58 KB without, and Excel documents average 509.71 KB with components and 109.18 KB without.