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Elisa Francesca Roselli
Hello,
I'm having a problem with word documents containing large numbers of
dynamically linked PowerPoint slides.
I've been using this technique to generate training material - one slide
per page, training notes underneath - for three years now. Within that
time, my firm has gone through three different PowerPoint templates.
I am currently updating some course material that uses the first
template. A course chapter with dynamic links to a presentation in this
template is 11 Mb.
If I update the presentation to the second template, and recreate the
links in the Word document to the new presentation, the file size has
expanded to 40 Mb. This I can undertand because the second template is
heavier graphically than the first.
But if I recreate the PowerPoint presentation using the third and most
recent template, and then link those slides into the Word chapter, the
file size IS A WHOPPING 300 MB !!
This is despite the fact that the third PowerPoint template is not
heavier graphically than the second. Obviously a 26 page file that
weighs 300 Mb is not useable.
I have researched this issue on Google and none of the problems raised
around similar topics are bringing any explaination. No, I am not
allowing rapid saves, no, "Automatically save version on close" is not
turned on, no, True Type fonts are not embedded etc.
I have also tried recreating the Word doc several times from scratch to
see if it was not corrupt. There is apparently no problem. It suffices
to change the dynamic link path of the embedded slides back to the
presentation using one of the first two templates and file size goes
back to what it was for those templates.
I am forced to use the third template because "that is the new compay
image". I have consulted with the people who designed it and they say
they haven't put in any huge bitmaps or elements that could account for
this phenomenon. In Powerpoint, the presentation files are the same size
no matter which of the three templates are being used.
Does anyone here have an idea of what could be happening?
Many thanks,
Elisa Francesca Roselli
Ile de France
I'm having a problem with word documents containing large numbers of
dynamically linked PowerPoint slides.
I've been using this technique to generate training material - one slide
per page, training notes underneath - for three years now. Within that
time, my firm has gone through three different PowerPoint templates.
I am currently updating some course material that uses the first
template. A course chapter with dynamic links to a presentation in this
template is 11 Mb.
If I update the presentation to the second template, and recreate the
links in the Word document to the new presentation, the file size has
expanded to 40 Mb. This I can undertand because the second template is
heavier graphically than the first.
But if I recreate the PowerPoint presentation using the third and most
recent template, and then link those slides into the Word chapter, the
file size IS A WHOPPING 300 MB !!
This is despite the fact that the third PowerPoint template is not
heavier graphically than the second. Obviously a 26 page file that
weighs 300 Mb is not useable.
I have researched this issue on Google and none of the problems raised
around similar topics are bringing any explaination. No, I am not
allowing rapid saves, no, "Automatically save version on close" is not
turned on, no, True Type fonts are not embedded etc.
I have also tried recreating the Word doc several times from scratch to
see if it was not corrupt. There is apparently no problem. It suffices
to change the dynamic link path of the embedded slides back to the
presentation using one of the first two templates and file size goes
back to what it was for those templates.
I am forced to use the third template because "that is the new compay
image". I have consulted with the people who designed it and they say
they haven't put in any huge bitmaps or elements that could account for
this phenomenon. In Powerpoint, the presentation files are the same size
no matter which of the three templates are being used.
Does anyone here have an idea of what could be happening?
Many thanks,
Elisa Francesca Roselli
Ile de France