PowerPoint is too big because of large photos

[Canoe49]

A staff member created a PowerPoint presentation that has so many pictures it
is over 430 megs. It loads too slowly even on a P4 2.8 GHz machine. It will
never be able to be run successfully on a laptop at a remote site. How can I
compress the photos or reduce their KB in order to make the presentation run
better?

 

[tohlz]

Hi,
Turn fast saves off first, go to Tools > Options > Save. Uncheck allow fast
saves.
Then, choose File, Save As and save it again under a new name.
Next, follow this article:
"Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?"
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm
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[Bill Dilworth]

Using the full resolution of the inserted picture is like using a life-size
roadmap. It become awkward and unusable because it is just too much. Get
rid of the detail from the pictures that you can not use and the show will
come down to a usable size.

Try optimizing the pictures by first making a copy of the presentation,
then: Select the picture => Format => Picture => Picture (tab) => Compress
=> select All Pictures and Web/Screen and Compress picts and Delete cropped
areas. This may take a few minutes to run, but should cut a lot of the
excess crud from the presentation.
However, it only sees pictures that are real pictures. If you cut and
pasted the pictures in from other applications, they may be stored in
PowerPoint as OLE objects. OLE objects are not optimized, because
PowerPoint does not seem to know that they can be. For these objects, you
should save them as pictures and re-insert them. (Lots of work, but a much
smaller PPT file.)


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[TAJ Simmons]

Canoe49

Chances are the pictures have too many pixels in them. You could manually
reduce the pixel count (sounds like a long job though)

perhaps better to get an add-in to do it for you.

see pptools optimizer
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/FAQ00013.htm

and
http://www.nxpowerlite.com

cheers

TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Paolo]

A staff member created a PowerPoint presentation that has so many pictures it
is over 430 megs. It loads too slowly even on a P4 2.8 GHz machine. It will
never be able to be run successfully on a laptop at a remote site. How can I
compress the photos or reduce their KB in order to make the presentation run
better?

Make sure the pictures are insterted as bitmaps or jpegs and not as
something like "photoshop object". If they are photoshop objects then
cut them and paste special as bitmap or jpeg. (If there are eny excel
chart objects cut them and paste as metafiles, they are also huge)

 

[Gerhard Nowak]

I think, the most easiest way like I practice it with my PPTs is
resizing the .jpg with ACDsee, the file size often come down from
2.5mb to 80kb without substantial quality loss. Don`t forget to convert
everything to .jpg first!

Gerry

 

[Canoe49]

I am using PowerPoint in Office 2000. What is ACDsee? I will try that
because nothing else has worked. Thanks for all your responses. Jerry