Is there a trick to reducing file size of powerpoint?

[Bob Fay]

I am new to PowerPoint. I have created a couple of presentations, but the
finished file size is quite large. I have had these files mailed to me and
they were reasonable in size. For instance Mine is 16 Meg compared to a
similar one from a friend is 5 meg. What is the secret?

Bob

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Bob

Have a read of this:
Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00062.htm

Lucy

 

[Bob Fay]

Hi Lucy,
Thank you very much for the help. The effect was dramatic. Took 6 meg
off the file right away.

Bob

 

[Lucy Thomson]

No problem

Lucy

 

[Andy I.]

Hi Bob,

As far as slideshows are concerned, I use "JPEG Optimizer" (It's free) to
reduce the file size of pictures before inserting them on to slides.
Then with the slideshow in saved as .ppt, use the "Compress" feature at the
bottom of the screen (a little square with an arrow at each corner.)
This can make a huge difference.

Hope this is relevant to your case.
Good Luck.
Andy I.



:I am new to PowerPoint. I have created a couple of presentations, but the
: finished file size is quite large. I have had these files mailed to me
and
: they were reasonable in size. For instance Mine is 16 Meg compared to a
: similar one from a friend is 5 meg. What is the secret?
:
: Bob
:
:

 

[Bob Fay]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the reply. I cannot find the box with the arrows that you
refer to. My Power point is very old. Ver 97 It may not have the feature
you mention. I have learned a lot about the content and have a much smaller
file now. Thanks again.

Bob

 

[howldog]

I am new to PowerPoint. I have created a couple of presentations, but the
finished file size is quite large. I have had these files mailed to me and
they were reasonable in size. For instance Mine is 16 Meg compared to a
similar one from a friend is 5 meg. What is the secret?

Bob

Besides the very good advice you got about optimizing and shrinking
the pictures in your presentation, an oft overlooked feature that CAN
make presentations large, is embedding fonts. Typically I create
powerpoint presentations utilizing only windows native fonts like
Arial, verdana, stuff like that. This way you dont have to embed the
fonts because the host machine will already have them.

 

[Echo S]

Besides the very good advice you got about optimizing and shrinking
the pictures in your presentation, an oft overlooked feature that CAN
make presentations large, is embedding fonts. Typically I create
powerpoint presentations utilizing only windows native fonts like
Arial, verdana, stuff like that. This way you dont have to embed the
fonts because the host machine will already have them.

That's a good point. Arial Unicode, for example will add 10+MB to the file
size. (Of course that's an extreme example. But still....)