Pretty much as the others say BUT your friends presentation is tiny for 97 images (assuming they are say half slide size). Does the image quality look OK? Are you sure they're not linked?

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John - I just check the Finder on his file (my friend's) -- it was done on MS PP "97-2004 presentation" -- and looks fine.

So what does that tell me?

What would be the best formate for me to create in? And do I just keep going in the new MS PP presentation (pptx)

Or switch to another,

Or start all over in another.

My problem -- I tried to send to myself an e-mail with the file, as a form of backup, and it timed out and would not go, being 33.8 MB for 47 slides.

Is there a way to make it smaller? and do I start over?

Thanks, Roger

I have tried some experiments. Opening 5 new screens, and placing some images there (movie posters) 4 on each screen, the same images, then saving, here are the results:

#1 - PowerPoint Slide Show .ppsx --- size: 553 KB
#2 - PowerPoint 97-2004 Slide Show .pps --- size: 639 KB
#3 - PowerPoint 97-2004 presentation .ppt --- size: 635 KB
#4 - PP Macro-Enabled Presentation .pptm --- size: 553 KB
#5 - PowerPoint presentation .pptx --- size: 553 KB

I can see which is the larger, and so forth -- seems #1 & #5 are the less, not sure what #4 is all about.

THEN I NOTICED SOMETHING FROM MY SOURCE -- is this important?

When I right click on multiple images from the web source, I have choices of which to use. I noticed possible size difference. One image from different sources:

580 X 898
300 X 300
340 X 475
344 X 500
200 X 281

I checked several more images and found the same thing, different stats.

Is this part of my problem as well??? Maybe without looking on Thur and Fri, I took images that were larger and after 110 images, that increased the size as well???

Thanks, Roger