MS Word/Powerpoint 2003 question

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Hi all,
At work I am putting together a powerpoint presentation that contains a lot of photos.

I have been asked to transfer the slides into word, so I have been dragging and dropping slides.

However, when I click on 'compress' on powerpoint I can take the file down from 25mb to 7mb, however the same function on MS word does not work......and I am stuck with a 500mb file, which makes my work laptop poo itself.

No matter how I import an image, MS word's compression feature has no effect.

Anyone got any ideas?

EDIT: At home my office 2007 Word seems to do it OK. Is my best bet just taking my personal laptop to work tomorrow?

 

[SiriusB]

Create the document at home and transfer it to your work machine? [take your personal laptop just in case mind]
Not long ago a client had the same issue - they thought Word was compressing but it was just ignoring her! It magically corrected itself, never did find out how or why. Not terribly helpful I realise. You could try changing between docx/doc and see if it catches on.

 

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Will give it a try. Thanks .