Remove Unused Masters

[al]

My Powerpoint templates have multiple masters, however when I save the
slide/presentation, Powerpoint does not automatically remove the unused
masters so my file sizes are large. I have turned off "Preserve Master" on
all the masters but it makes no difference, I get the same result. Therefore
I have to find and manually remove the unused masters. Engineers will be
using these templates and will not want to find and remove unused masters
every time they create a slide or presentation (neither would I for that
matter).

Is there a way for Powerpoint to automatically remove unused slide masters
so the user doesn't have to?

 

[aneasiertomorrow]

Hi Al

I'm afraid I don't know of a way to do that but another approach is to ask
the question 'why are the masters so big?'. I use multiple masters a lot and
don't have the problem you describe.

Images are (in my experience) usually to blame for large file sizes so try
cut, edit-> paste special-> jpg or png and see if that helps.

Other reasons for large file sizes can be seen here:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00062.htm

Lucy
--
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

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[al]

Hi Lucy.

We actually don't have many graphics in our masters. Just a small logo or
two, a colored line or two, and maybe 2 or 3 words of text, depending on the
master. After reading your response, I went back and checked the logo file
sizes and they were reasonably small. I think the reason the template size is
larger (3.6MB) is because we have and need a good number of slide masters
(30...and counting, which includes the title masters of course, which also
have the same logos, lines etc).

If I cut the template in half to create two templates it would help a little
but the file sizes will still be a good deal larger than they otherwise would
be. Considering we have thousands of slides, this would be a problem.

I guess if Microsoft doesn't have a way to automatically remove unused
masters, then, we will have to remove them all manually.

Thanks Lucy, I appreciate the response. : )

 

[aneasiertomorrow]

Wow, 30+ masters?

If it's not too confidential/sensitive send me a copy and I'll see if I can
suggest anything.
lucy at aneasiertomorrow dot com dot au

Lucy

PS sorry for delay in replying - I'm in Oz
--
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au major overhaul completed 26/4/07

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[al]

Sorry, I wish I could send you a copy but it is too confidential to send. : (

 

[zidansoft]

My Powerpoint templates have multiple masters, however when I save the
slide/presentation, Powerpoint does not automatically remove the unused
masters so my file sizes are large. I have turned off "Preserve Master" on
all the masters but it makes no difference, I get the same result. Therefore
I have to find and manually remove the unused masters. Engineers will be
using these templates and will not want to find and remove unused masters
every time they create a slide or presentation (neither would I for that
matter).

Is there a way for Powerpoint to automatically remove unused slide masters
so the user doesn't have to?

Write one automation program for remove master slide,it can be removed
only unused masters,i believe this is this is better than Manuel
deletion