I am new to PP -- doing a presentation.

Have 47 slides. On those are a total of 110 images (book covers, movie posters, pictures of faces, history illustrations). Total MB is now 33.8 MB.

A friend of mine did 52 slides and 97 images and his size is only 4.7 MB.



What do I need to know and or do to make this more manageable.

Thanks, Roger

1) I think you need to decrease pictures size (Use one of the pictures editors).

2) What is the format you use to save the presentation? If you use 97-2003 presentation (PPT) or show (PPS), this well make the file size very big. If so, Use presentation (PPTX) or show (PPSX) which is for 2007-2010.

I hope this well help.

Sounds like you need to compress your pictures and change the resolution. This should be in the format picture dialog box. > Compress pictures (all pictures in document) delete cropped areas and change your DPI to the lowest setting. Be sure to make a backup before you do this in case something gets messed up after the conversion.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks

Thanks Hani,

Your saving comments seem important. I did not even think about the saving end. I just saved the doc when the prompt came up.

So I need some guidance here.

Checking the finder, I see:

"MS PP presentation" as the saved, in pptx

I then tried to take that doc and "save as" in "MS PP slide show," in ppsx.

But it was the same size.

So -- do I have to re-do the entire presentation? And start from the beginning with new slides and save from the beginning as a ppsx???

Or, what else can I do?

From where I am now? changing the save as into something else . . . or even one of the other saves . . .

Thanks, Roger

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

After all, I'm sure the pictures is the main reason, So don't use PowerPoint compress pictures - it's useless -, Use external picture editor to compress it.
But first compress some of your pictures, And put it in new presentation and see the result.

Folks, I am trying to understand this process, but am lost.

Excelledsoftware wrote above:

"Sounds like you need to compress your pictures and change the resolution. This should be in the format picture dialog box. > Compress pictures (all pictures in document) delete cropped areas and change your DPI to the lowest setting. Be sure to make a backup before you do this in case something gets messed up after the conversion."

I am not sure I know which box you are talking about. Under HOME, I see "Insert" picture button, with 4 options. I see "Format" with only Arrange as an option. So I do not know what to do here.

Hani followed with: "After all, I'm sure the pictures is the main reason, So don't use PowerPoint compress pictures - it's useless -, Use external picture editor to compress it. But first compress some of your pictures, And put it in new presentation and see the result."

I looked for "external picture editor" but do not know where that is -- to compress it.

The resource book MS PowerPoint 2010 Bible - is online with the Public Library and I have looked around in that, but do not see these items.

What I did the other day in my beginnings, was - open a clean slide, type some words, then using web sources for images, right clicked on an image, copy, then paste in an open part of the slide, and it went in, then resized and went to the next slide -- did the 47 total with 110 images, and found out how big all of that was.

I am a real beginner here, just wanting to do a presentation for public viewing on: The History of Mystery (mystery writing from Edgar Allan Poe to the present). So any further help will really be appreciated.

Thanks, Roger

I'm sorry Rmsobin I wasn't clear.. I mean use program like Photoshop or other one to compress the pictures; Because when you compress pictures by PowerPoint you won't see that difference in the final result.