Saving in a smaller format

[PoohsHunnyBee]

Well Patrick kudos to you! I guess that means there's hope for the rest of
us. I have done the same but with no change in results, I'll take heart from
your experience though and try it one more time }
and Kathy, thanks for keeping on top of us like this, lots of folks put in
their two cents' worth and then move on. Your advice and expertise is
sincerely appreciated!
Colleen

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Well, then it sounds like time to get back to your set up. I assume you
tried everything here (Fast Saves off, add to new presentation, compress the
graphics and the sounds, round-trip to HTML, etc.), so let's take a
different tack.

What is in the presentation besides sounds and pictures? Do you have any
embedded fonts? Did you create anything using Insert--> Object? If you save
the presentation slide by slide, do any of them stand out as absolutely
huge? (Hint: Shyam has a great piece of VBA code that lets you do the
splitting lickity-split. Find it at: http://skp.mvps.org/ppt00036.htm#2)

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[PoohsHunnyBee]

I DID embed one font, and I used insert to put the pictures in on each page,
I am going to start all over again by looking at it from the viewpoint of
each of these things you have mentioned, it will take me some time, but I
will be back to let you know,
thanks again!

 

[Joyoooo]

The best way to make your pictures smaller is to send them to yourself in
email through Windows XP. Windows XP will ask you if you want to make them
smaller click yes. When you receive them copy and save them to a file. They
will probably be in the 50kb range.

I think your big problem is the Wav file. Since powerpoint will only let
you embedd wav files of 100 kb you must change this to email. First go to
options in Powerpoint and change the 100 kb limit, try 20,000 which is way
larger than you would email.

Now for the tricky part. We have to fool Powerpoint into thiinking a MP3
file is a Wav file. To do this Download a free program name CDex and install
it. CDex has a wnaspi32.dll missing so you have to type wnaspi32.dll into
Google and download that dll and drop it in the CDex folder that you will
find under program files on your C drive. Now you are ready to work the
magic. Open Cdex and click Convert. Find the folder that has the MP3 file
you want in your presentation. Highlight it in CDex. Then click Add
Riff-Way header. If you go back to the folder you had the MP3 in you will
see you now have two files with the same name one an MP3 and one a Wav. both
have the MB of the MP3 file. (First time you do it save the MP3 to a folder
with nothing else in it.) Now insert this new Wav file. in Powerpoint. Save
as a pps file. Your MB will come way down and you will be able to email your
pps. file. I spent a week researhing this on the internet. Microsoft's site
was no help at all. By changing your wav to a Mp3 file you have cut your
size down to about 2-5MP. I don't know why Microsoft won't let you embedd
MP3 files and make it simple.
I hope this is what you are looking for. I think I found the PPTools site
the most helpful in solving my problem.

H Kathy thanks for the response.
I have turned off fast saves and resaved it. I have twenty slides, all but
two have pictures which are jpegs. I have gone in and used the format option
to compress each one to 96 dpi and saved it again, no luck. I have a .wav
that plays through the entire presentation but it is long so it isn't looping
or anything like that. I have received .pps files that had more, larger
photos and music all of the way through and they were still small enough to
e-mail. I can't figure what I am doing different. Hopefully you will be
patient to help me muddle through...LOL
Thanks again, I look forward to hearing from you again,
Colleen

 

[PoohsHunnyBee]

Yes, I DID resave it with a new name and still no luck. I am going to try
and do what is suggested in the last entry here and I will get back to you.

 

[MWissel]

What software did you use to convert your wav file? I am having the same
problem as you have been. My wav file makes my pps extremely large! Thanks

 

[PoohsHunnyBee]

I used a program that I downloaded for free called MP32WAV Pro, I'm not sure
where I got it to be honest with you as I did this quite a while ago and have
not had need of it since, try maybe some of the entries that offerred me
suggestions?!?
I have put this project off indefinitely as three new time consuming
projects have been put my way in the last week, since this other one was
strictly personal it will just have to wait!
Good Luck,
Colleen

 

[Noxzema]

If all else fails or you don't want to spend the time resetting everything,
there is a free site called sendspace.com and you can upload your file and it
sends a link and the recipient is able to access and save it... i have used
that many times when people have not been able to receive large attachments.
works great!

 

[papavictor]

Hi, I get .pps files sent to me all of the time and they contain pictures and
music etc, seems to me that they are pretty large files when they are being
created, when I receive them they are just tiny and can be super easily
e-mailed to even the smallest mailbox. When I create a presentation and save
it as .pps it is HUGE? Is there something I have done wrong? The pics ARE
.jpeg...does this make a difference? Please advise, I have people waiting on
this show but it won't e-mail the size it is now {
Thanks for your help!