Pictures creating large PP files

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steve

I'm using Power Point 2002 SP2 with windows 2000.

When putting photos, logos, etc into powerpoint it causes
the size of the file to grow exponentially. Just
inserting a photo of 250Kb the file grows 3 meg.

My work around has been (within Power Point) to copy the
picture, delete it and Paste Special and paste as JPG.
This usually works pretty good and reduces the size of the
file considerably.

Since some of our presentation have a lot of small photos
and the like this first option can take a lot of time.

A second thing I have tried is compressing all pictures in
the presentation. This also seems to work well.

Is there any other ideas - the second option seems to work
the easiest since all photos can be done at once and saves
a lot of time. I am worried about losing photo quality
but in the few cases I have used this option I have not
seen any difference in quality.

Two questions :
1. Is the compression option the best way and what is the
risk on image quality?
2. Any other ideas or ways to go about avoiding this - is
this a Power Point bug?

Thanks for the help
Steve
 
2. Any other ideas or ways to go about avoiding this - is
this a Power Point bug?
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No bug, probably a side effect of copy/paste. Try doing Insert > Picture >
from file.

Also turn off Fast Saves.

John O
 
Steve,
There are software add-ins for PowerPoint that optimize and compress
the entire file with one click, for example, Impact Pointless
(www.impactlabs.com/pointless) Any compression process CAN reduce
image quality -- the Pointless app provides options for adjusting the
level of compression to minimize quality issues.

The alternative is to spend more time looking for light-weight
(already compressed) imagery or continue manually compressing your
content. Depending upon how you like to use your time (e.g., focus on
creating great content or focus on tweaking PPT files) an option like
POINTLess can be advantageous.

JMTC
 
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