Help: How can I divide a file to decrease size?

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I have a presentation large is large - with 55
Megabytes,and over 210 slides. The presentation contains
many photos of birds and butterflies, etc., along with
words. I have had problems of some pictures on some slides
being replaced by a "Red X." Also, some of the pictures of
some slides end up going to another slide. For instance, a
picture within slide number 1 ends up replacing a picture
on slide 140.
I called Microsoft, and they helped me to delete all of my
temp files....(a total of 6,317.) to help to speed up the
system. They also suggested that I divide the file up and
link the two parts, which would make each file smaller.
Can anyone give me a short way how to divide the file into
two separate ones of say 105 slides each? I then need to
link the two files, but I think I can do that from the
help screen. thanks, John
 
Open you presentation, save it under a new name e.g. Part two Open both
presentations in Slide sorter view. Select all the slides in part one that you
don't want (select the first, hold down the shift key and click last). press
delete, save the presentation. do the same for part two.

See here for Red X:
RED X instead of graphics
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00064.htm

See here for linking:
Linking in PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00193.htm


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I have a presentation large is large - with 55
Megabytes,and over 210 slides. The presentation contains
many photos of birds and butterflies, etc., along with
words. I have had problems of some pictures on some slides
being replaced by a "Red X." Also, some of the pictures of
some slides end up going to another slide. For instance, a
picture within slide number 1 ends up replacing a picture
on slide 140.
I called Microsoft, and they helped me to delete all of my
temp files....(a total of 6,317.) to help to speed up the
system. They also suggested that I divide the file up and
link the two parts, which would make each file smaller.
Can anyone give me a short way how to divide the file into
two separate ones of say 105 slides each? I then need to
link the two files, but I think I can do that from the
help screen. thanks, John
 
Also, be sure that you have turned fast saves off in the saving options.
--David

David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
 
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Hello,

It sounds that, although there are workarounds, you would like this to be a
lot easier to do in PowerPoint.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality, don't forget to send your
feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

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