Is there an EASY way to remove file bloat caused by 'track revisio

[Cynthia Dolphin]

'Track revisions' seems like SUCH a GOOD idea, so many people use it, but
using it makes file sizes balloon. (e.g., one six month old file, with only
three TEXT slides, was 15MB).

The ONLY way we've found to fix it is to create an entirely new presentation
and copy the contents of each slide into new slides in that presentation.
(Copying the whole slide keeps all that file bloat.)

It's time consuming for longer files, but it works. The 15MB file became
320K...

Does anybody have an easier way? Microsoft Help is silent on the subject,
and the information it proffers for "accept all" in 'tracking changes'
doesn't apply to 'track revisions'.

Thanks!

 

[Michael Koerner]

Here are some options.
Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00062.htm

 

[Cynthia Dolphin]

Thank you for the speedy response.

The only part of the page that's applicable is:
"As a test, start a new presentation based on the same master, then choose
Insert, Slides From File and insert all the slides from your overweight
presentation into the new one. Save the new presentation and compare sizes.
If it's suitably smaller and looks the way you'd like it to, say "Thanks,
Marilyn!" (for it was she who taught us this trick) and enjoy the rest of
your day."

This only reduced the file size from 5.8MB to 5.4MB. By the method I
described in my first post, we actually reduced the same file to 1.5MB.

Any other thoughts?

 

[Michael Koerner]

Thanks Steve

Dolphin
wrote:

You missed part, then.

Re-visit the page and search on "Review Features" (press Ctrl+F in your
browser
for the Find feature).





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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Cynthia Dolphin]

Assuming I did it correctly (I did follow all of the instructions), both of
the VBS scripts resulted in a 200K reduction in file size (again, nowhere
near the 4MB we can get by rebuilding the file.)

My request for a 'simpler' way was so that I could tell others how to do it
(that's why I didn't try the VBS scripts in the first place.)... Unless
there's something else I missed, it seems like I'll have to stick with
reconstructing the file for them.

Note: this is the "track revisions" dialog that PPT brings on start up of a
file, and it's apparently NOT the same as the "track changes" available in
Outlook, since none of us are launching the PPT from Outlook.
Thanks for bearing with me.