One of my friends needs to know how to compress the whole slideshow, in either 2000 or 2003 version (it's at work, so she's not sure which version it is). Online it says something with picture or something but she can't get it to work, and she's been trying for 5 hours. Could someone who has done this before please explain how to do it?Update:That's not what I meant, I know how to save a document...I need to take a powerpoint that someone has already made and compress it - make it take up less space as a file.. Created by Vampire Princess. computers-internet-en - software-en

Compressing Powerpoint Slideshow?

Verified answer

Hi,

Does your PowerPoint slide show have a big file size? Try the ways at following:

Compress the image

Compress in an image editor. You can compress BMP and TIF files. In Photo Editor, choose File > Save As and click the More button. Choose an option from the Compression drop-down list. In Adobe Photoshop, choose Image > Image Size. Write down the dimensions in pixels and change the resolution to 72. Then re-enter the dimensions as they were to compress without resizing.

Compress in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003. Select any image to display the Picture toolbar. Click the Compress Pictures button. In the Compress Pictures dialog box, compress the selected image or all images, choose a resolution (use Web/Screen for the smallest size), and also choose to delete the cropped area of images -- so you can't restore the image to its original size. Click OK and then save the presentation under a new name -- just in case you don't like the results. I took a PowerPoint presentation with one BMP file and reduced it from 4,561 KB to 831 KB this way. A JPEG photo that I took with my digital camera went from 383 KB to 41 KB!

Handle the embedded objects

1. Such embedded objects and images are easy to shrink. After you edit the picture:

Right click the image, point to Grouping on the shortcut menu, and then click Ungroup.

Next, immediately right-click the image again, point to Grouping on the shortcut menu, and then click Regroup. Ungrouping throws away the OLE data and leaves just the picture — in a form that PowerPoint can now compress.

2. In PowerPoint, copy and paste from a slide to another slide will still do. No matter how many times you use the images, only one copy of the image will be stored. Thus, use images repeat is really a good help to reduce the file size.

BTW, you are able to reduce up to 90% file size if you convert your slideshow to Flash presentation, such as this article about how to convert powerpoint to flash seamlessly:

http://snipurl.com/pps-flash