Power Point Problem

[Chad]

I have a girl in our office that is the director of
marketing (lets call her Jill) and Jill has to create
Power Point presentations for the President of our
company. The Power Point presentations have about 400
images in them and the file size of the Power Point
presentations range from 500 MB to 1GB. Jill is using
high res images and I think this is making the files so
large.
My problem is this. Jill's computer will crash or
sometimes it will freeze for about 2 min so it can try to
process the information. I also want to add Jill is
running Adobe Photo Shop, Word, Outlook and working on a
500 MB to 1GB Power Point file. Jill blames me for her
computer freezing and the president thinks I am not doing
my job. Also when Jill is finished with the 500 MB to 1GB
Power Point presentation she transfers it to a Laptop and
the president takes it to do a presentation. The laptop
runs very slow and sometimes it will crash in the
presentation. Again I catch hell for it.

Jill's computer has dual 2.8 GHz Xeon Processors with 3GB
of RAM and 512MB video card.

The presidents laptop has 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 Processor
with 1GB of RAM and 128MB ATI Radeon 9700 AGP 8X video
card.

It is my understanding that Power Point is not able to
take advantage of high res images. I can't find any
information about this. I need to have written
documentation from Microsoft so I can show that Jill
could be getting better performance if she used smaller
images. Jill has the president convinced that his
presentation will look bad if she uses lower res images.

Please help me build a case.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Chad

 

[Sonia]

Jill's wrong.

You'll find lots of ammunition here:

Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

What's the best resolution for images in PowerPoint screen shows?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00415.htm

Scanning - Bitmap Resolution - DPI
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00074.htm
What's all this about DPI and INCHES and RESOLUTION?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00075.htm

http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Chad...

for the President of our company.

You missed our the presidents name

Turn OFF fast saves ... see
Do this before using PowerPoint seriously
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm

Then see
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm
and
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com




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[Steve Rindsberg]

Sonia's directed you at several good links.

One point that you might try running past them:

The boss' laptop runs at, for argument's sake let's say 1024x768.

If Jill dumps huge images into PPT, they can never be displayed at anything
over that 1024 x 768. Can't have more pixels than you have, right? ;-)

In some cases, PPT can make good use of a bit more resolution than max,
particularly if you're handing it highly detailed images (map scans, detailed
drawings and such), but even then, 10-25% over the max should be plenty.

==========

Second line of attack:

Have her choose a representative sample set of typical images.
She should insert these into PPT normally (Insert, Picture, From File -- slap a
wrist if she's drag/dropping or copy/pasting the files from Photoshop or
someplace. Bad Jill. BAD.)

Then use photoshop to downsample the images to whatever rez the boss' system is
set to. Pop those into the same presentation.

Let the boss decide. If the boss sees a major difference (other than MUCH
better speed with the smaller images) we've all got some tapdancing to do.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your help....... I will use it.