diff --git a/src/export/packer/next-compiler.spec.ts b/src/export/packer/next-compiler.spec.ts
index ac271c02d9..7c48569793 100644
--- a/src/export/packer/next-compiler.spec.ts
+++ b/src/export/packer/next-compiler.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 /* tslint:disable:typedef space-before-function-paren */
 import { expect } from "chai";
+import * as sinon from "sinon";
 
-import { File, Footer, Header } from "file";
+import { File, Footer, Header, Paragraph } from "file";
 
 import { Compiler } from "./next-compiler";
 
@@ -72,5 +73,22 @@ describe("Compiler", () => {
             expect(fileNames).to.include("word/footer2.xml");
             expect(fileNames).to.include("word/_rels/footer2.xml.rels");
         });
+
+        it("should call the format method X times equalling X files to be formatted", () => {
+            // This test is required because before, there was a case where Document was formatted twice, which was inefficient
+            // This also caused issues such as running prepForXml multiple times as format() was ran multiple times.
+            const paragraph = new Paragraph("");
+            const doc = new File();
+
+            doc.addSection({
+                properties: {},
+                children: [paragraph],
+            });
+            // tslint:disable-next-line: no-string-literal
+            const spy = sinon.spy(compiler["formatter"], "format");
+
+            compiler.compile(file);
+            expect(spy.callCount).to.equal(10);
+        });
     });
 });
diff --git a/src/export/packer/next-compiler.ts b/src/export/packer/next-compiler.ts
index 426d32174f..6a3e752098 100644
--- a/src/export/packer/next-compiler.ts
+++ b/src/export/packer/next-compiler.ts
@@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ export class Compiler {
         file.verifyUpdateFields();
         const documentRelationshipCount = file.DocumentRelationships.RelationshipCount + 1;
 
+        const documentXmlData = xml(this.formatter.format(file.Document), prettify);
+        const documentMediaDatas = this.imageReplacer.getMediaData(documentXmlData, file.Media);
+
         return {
             Relationships: {
                 data: (() => {
-                    const xmlData = xml(this.formatter.format(file.Document), prettify);
-                    const mediaDatas = this.imageReplacer.getMediaData(xmlData, file.Media);
-
-                    mediaDatas.forEach((mediaData, i) => {
+                    documentMediaDatas.forEach((mediaData, i) => {
                         file.DocumentRelationships.createRelationship(
                             documentRelationshipCount + i,
                             "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image",
@@ -88,9 +88,7 @@ export class Compiler {
             },
             Document: {
                 data: (() => {
-                    const tempXmlData = xml(this.formatter.format(file.Document), prettify);
-                    const mediaDatas = this.imageReplacer.getMediaData(tempXmlData, file.Media);
-                    const xmlData = this.imageReplacer.replace(tempXmlData, mediaDatas, documentRelationshipCount);
+                    const xmlData = this.imageReplacer.replace(documentXmlData, documentMediaDatas, documentRelationshipCount);
 
                     return xmlData;
                 })(),