I need to reduce a file for emailing

[Rachel Hoarau]

I have a picture slide show to email but it is still 20 MB after crompressing
pics and reducing the amount of pictures and slides. I work with PP 2007 but
the file is saved on 97-03 version.
It wont attach to an email. I have tried to zip but it does not do much as I
believe it is already well compressed. Also, when I zip, it does open as
slideshow?
Any idea what I can do now? I have seen doc with far more data than mine
that just email without problem, so I am sure I do something wrong.
Thanks for your help!

 

[Landy]

Rachel,
I find that after compressing pictures etc. the result often won't show up
unless you choose "save as..." and give it a new filename. Just hitting
"Save" will often give you the same file size (particularly if you have
"allow fast saves' enabled. So - I would chooose "Save as", making
sure you do nthe compression thing again (just in case). Also make
sure you choose the lowest resolution (web/screen) setting and have
both the "compress pictures" and "delete cropped areas of pictures" checked.
cheers
Bill

 

[Landy]

Oh - and forgot...... make sure you have "allow fast saves" disabled.
cheers
Bill

 

[Sandy]

Rachel,

What Landy said -- and take into consideration that if you pasted the images
in from another program (vs. inserting them) the PPT compression tool won't
work.

Also, consider testing NXPowerLite to compress your files. There is a free
trial and the purchase price is very reasonable.

 

[Echo S]

Just a couple of points of clarification --

PowerPoint 2007 doesn't have an "allow fast saves" option.

The compress pictures in PPT 2007 happens automatically on save. (It
doesn't, however, use the lowest resolution, so it's worth changing that and
re-saving as described below. I don't think it will be necessary to do a
Save As, although it won't hurt.)

These are both different behaviors than in PPT 2003 and earlier versions.

 

[Echo S]

Did you apply some of the new effects (like glows and reflections) to the
images? If so, that could be contributing to the file size issue, since the
images + their effects will be re-saved as images when you "backsave" the
file to a 97-2003 format.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Another option you can also try if what everyone else has suggested is not
enough, and if your using Outlook Express as your mail program. You can
click on Tools, Accounts, select your mail account, select Properties,
Advanced, and half way down the tab is a Break Apart files option that you
can set, so that the mail program will break up you large file into smaller
packets, that will combine as one again at the other end.

 

[jrhx]

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[Echo S]

Oh, lovely. They added your name, but they made it look as if you're writing
for their site.

This is so wrong. They should be linking to your original content, not
stealing it.

 

[Echo S]

oh ho ho. And here I thought it was "just" stolen from http://www.pptfaq.com