Pres. too large - won't open!

[Chris Delforce]

I have spent ages working on a powerpoint presentation,
but now it's too big and I can't open it or save it to a
floppy disk or anything!
I don't want to lose my presentation, after all the time
and effort I've put into it! The file is over 5 megabytes -
is there a way of splitting it up without actually
opening it?
SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE! What do I do?

 

[Glen Millar]

Chris,

First, the following is about good procedures to reduce file size:

Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm



Secondly, if it is corrupt, this may help:



Recovering a corrupt presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm

Finally, please never work from or save to a floppy drive directly.
But if you want to split it up over floppy disks, pack and Go is an option,
under the file menu:



What is a PPZ file?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00164.htm



But I personally wouldn't use it. Best option is to burn to CD, imho.



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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
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[John O]

Hang on a minute there...

What exactly CAN you do with this file? How did you close it the last time
you worked on it?

 

[Walter Donavan]

I have several PPT presentations in the 10-25 MB range, and I have no
problem opening or saving them. I save them to my HDD and then copy them to
CD.

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Walter Donavan
Author of "Revelation: The Seven Stages
of the Journey Back to God"
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[B]

I suspect that one of two things has happened.

1) You have hit the limit of your machines ability. If you have an older
machine with a small amount of RAM, and a lot of other programs calling for
memory ... then it is possible that resources have become an issue. I doubt
it.

2) It is also possible that your presentation has become corrupted. Don't
worry, yet. Try this link for ideas to uncorrupt it.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm


Many of my presentations will run 10 to 30 megs, due to large numbers of
pictures. I have even heard of a presentation that was over 1 gig. In both
cases, the file size can be reduced, but file size is not your issue unless
you have a very limited computer system.

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[TAJ Simmons]

B

1) You have hit the limit of your machines ability.

Is this a polite way of saying...your machine has crashed? or Hey, maybe
it's time to buy a new one!

Cheers
tS

 

[Martin Conradi]

I have had several presentations of over 250Mb including a single slide of
330Mb. This was from a publisher creating a montage of high res shots. It
took nearly 10 minutes to open which lead them to thinking the computer had
crashed. I simply exported the slide as a .jpg and used that instead, with
no visible difference. It came down to around 100k.

(This, incidentally, I claim as a world record - 99.99% reduction without
using any fancy tools).

So there's always hope!

Martin Conradi
www.ShowcaseSolutions.net

 

[Glen Millar]

Martin,

Perhaps the other person claims it as a world record for file bloat <vbg>.
Best I did was 160 meg to 28 meg. Not even close to your efforts!

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Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
Please tell us your ppt version, and get back to us here
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[John O]

(This, incidentally, I claim as a world record - 99.99% reduction without

using any fancy tools).

99.96....but who's counting. I'll support your claim, Martin, that's
pretty good.

John O

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

(This, incidentally, I claim as a world record - 99.99% reduction without

using any fancy tools).

ROFL!! <g>