Well it depends what you are going to do with the file. If you want to
email
it, put it on a web site, play it from your computer...
Lucy
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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au
Lucy I really appreciate your help. Could I impose one more time? What
would
you consider a huge file size or maybe a range of what is best? I'm
pretty
new at this as you can probably tell.
:
It depends on the size of the photos. Easiest thing to do is make the
changes, save the file and look at the size
. If it's huge you
could
use
PowerPoint's native compression tool - when I do this I usually do it
on
a
copy of the presentation in case I don't like the compressed results.
Double
click a picture to open the picture format tab -> compress pictures
(over
on
left hand side) -> options -> select compression size (I usually go
for
print) -> OK -> OK. Save the file and check the size now.
Lucy
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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au
Lucy,
The Cut & Paste Special works great! I have about 90 photos, by
saving
to
png am I adding too much drag to loading of Presentation or does
Powerpoint
compress enough not to make this a factor? Thanks for your help.
:
Thanks for confirming I'm not bonkers Echo. I was thinking you
could
cut ->
paste special -> as picture on stuff that wasn't behaving but
wanted
to
test it
Lucy
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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au
Well, the thing is, the PPT Viewer needs the compatibility pack
to
be
installed, otherwise it can't open PPTX (2007 format) files. The
compatibility pack will not run from CD.
Therefore, when you package for CD and opt to use the Viewer,
PowerPoint
automatically saves the file as a PPT (97-2003 format) so the
Viewer
can
run it without needing a compatibility pack installed on the
computer.
BUT (there's always a but, isn't there?) ... when you downlevel
save
like
that (from 2007 PPTX to 2003 PPT format), some of the shadows
will
become
hard-edged, old-style shadows. (I believe some still remain as
soft
shadows, which is why Lucy is getting a different result than you
are.)
Unfortunately, I can't remember which ones and I can't easily
test
it
right now.
I think you may be able to use a different shadow, though, and
keep
it
soft.
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Can I save the presentation as a slide show & add the Viewer on
the
cd
as
well? does it have to be packaged within Powerpoint?
:
Hi
Do you need to include the viewer? Package for CD automatically
includes
the
2007 viewer which actually 'downsaves' your 2007 presentation
to a
2003
presentation which mucks up things such as the shadows. If you
don't
need
the viewer select 'archive package' from the options dialogue
accessed
from
the package for CD dialogue.
Lucy
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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au
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I must be missing something. When I add a drop shadow to a
photo
in
Powerpoint 2007 it looks great. After I publish it the
shadows
turn
into
hard
edges. What's the point of having great shadows when they
disappear
upon
publishing to cd?
How do I retain the great shadowing effect in PP 2007?
