compressing embedded fotos to reduce file size in excel

[jane]

I created an excel file document size 2MB. I wanted to reduce the
size.
My colleague with VAIO could compress the images by holding down ctrl
click rt. side of mouse and compress easily the file to 455KB. I tried
with my mac but couldn't find similar and easy compression tools. My
Mac should be just as friendly!
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks Jane

 

[CyberTaz]

I don't think you're telling us the entire story or perhaps your colleague
worked some sleight-of-hand on you. If he(?) right-clicked the file icon in
an Explorer window he most likely then selected WinZip & used one of its
options to compress the file. There's no magic involved, and you *can* do
the same [or better] on a Mac - it's just a different compression program.

Command-Click a file in a Finder & use the StuffIt utility to compress the
file.

Just keep in mind that Excel won't be able to open either compressed file
until the file is expanded again.

If you're referring to something else, please provide more complete &
accurate details.

 

[little_creature]

I created an excel file document size 2MB. I wanted to reduce the
size.
My colleague with VAIO could compress the images by holding down ctrl
click rt. side of mouse and compress easily the file to 455KB. I tried
with my mac but couldn't find similar and easy compression tools. My
Mac should be just as friendly!
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks Jane

Hiya,
Is your friend PC man? That would explain it. On PC you can right
click on Picture in excel go to format picture>picture and there is
magic button compress. A friend of mine has just check this on Mac and
there is no such option. In that case you can either:
1. Pack you xls file by zip or any other compression tool as CyberTaz
has described, but note that tis will pack the whole xps file, not
just the images, the result will be that any time you will want to
access this file you will have to uncompress it. But this will not
harm your data!

2. What about compressing (resampling) the images before you put them
into excel. This will give you more control about the image
compression. Thinking about GIMP which is free.You might like it or
not, Why not to try it? Have a look here:http://www.gimp.org/

Basically you open your files there and then Image>scale image and
change the resolution there... Feel free to post back for issues on
resolution and image compression. Basically the smaller the image
resolution is the smaller the image is BUT the poorer quality you will
get when printing. For screen purposes 72dpi is OK. For comercial
printing such as books 300dpi is usually OK.