saving my word doc in a smaller format?

[Mazer]

Hello - thanks for checking out this posting. I am trying to save a
15 page document that has several photos imbedded in it. Is there a
way to make the photos smaller or the file size smaller?

The problem is that the person where I am sending it is complaining
that the images are not coming up on his end. Now, the doc is 4.7 mb
- that's not too big right?

thanks!
Eric

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Eric:

Any file larger than 1 MB is too large to email.

Many email systems will simply refuse to accept it. Those that do accept it
will be owned by users who now do not like you very much

You need to remove those photos from the document, and then make copies of
the originals in a separate folder.

Then work out what size you want each one to be in the document, and call
each picture up in a graphics editor.

Decide what resolution you want: for on-screen display, set 96 dpi, for
printing, set 150. The higher you set, the bigger the files.

Now set the size of each picture to be the exact size you want it to appear
in the document, and save it as a new picture. Choose a format of "jpeg"
for photographs.

Put those in your document: chances are the size will shrink to less than a
twentieth of what it was.

That's how you do it

Cheers

Hello - thanks for checking out this posting. I am trying to save a
15 page document that has several photos imbedded in it. Is there a
way to make the photos smaller or the file size smaller?

The problem is that the person where I am sending it is complaining
that the images are not coming up on his end. Now, the doc is 4.7 mb
- that's not too big right?

thanks!
Eric

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