I'm using Salesforce Lightening Force and have an email template that I use for our monthly e-news.
 
Recently it's started telling me that I have too much content, just prior to sending, and will cut off elements unless I edit it.
 
I have discovered that there is a 32,000 character limit (which includes visible characters, other characters and markup) which doesn't seem like very much!  
 
The issue I have is that I think html code is being duplicated in the background somehow (I've deleted loads of "‌ " and also some table formatting which has just replicated and doesn't seem to have any purpose.  
 
Does anyone know if there is an easier way of removing code which isn't actually being used without trawling through?  Also how do I stop it from re-appearing??
 
The end of the template looks like the attached, but more (!) and every time I delete and save it magically reappears and it all counts toward the character limit!