How to compress a Powerpoint presentation?

Messiah Khan · 24 Apr 2006 at 09:30

Ive had a member of staff come to me, who wants a powerpoint presentation uploaded to our intranet, but its too big for her space. Its currently 66mb but only 18 slides long. Ive recompressed any pictures that are in the presentation which has nocked a whole 1mb off, lol. Im guessing most of the size is due to the slide design. Is there anyway to recompress or redesign the slide design?

Caged · 24 Apr 2006 at 10:33

Something's definitely up, as a 22 slide presentation I've got is only 293kb. Try the Tools > Compress Pictures options when you save it, and the Save Options in the same menu, maybe you're embedding fonts.

Scam · 24 Apr 2006 at 10:36

Could you save it as a PDF? I dont know about Powerpoint exactly, but in OpenOffice you can export it as a PDF which is handy.

Clarkey · 24 Apr 2006 at 10:56

why not just zip it? Its usually quite effective on stuff like that.

Messiah Khan · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:01

Ive tried compressing the pictures, but this hardly makes a difference. I'd rather not save it as a pdf or zip it, as it may be used by quite a few computer illiterate users, so i'd rahter keep it in a format they know. Also, the project has quite a few animated text object, which would not be preserved in .pdf format. Would the animations add much to the file size?

chex · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:31

try resiziing them by a pixel or so and the picture size often more than halves.