Compressing pictures changes front to back order

[Guest]

When I go to save my PPT and choose to compress all pictures in the file, it
pulls the pictures to the front of all other drawing objects on the screen.
How can I get PowerPoint to leave the stack order of the pictures alone.

 

[Echo S]

PPT's compression tool seems to work fine here and doesn't change the
stacking order. How are you compressing your pictures? Are you using a
third-party add-in?

 

[Guest]

I am using the built in Compress Pictures tool in PP2K3. I too tried to
recreate it from a new PPT file, but have no luck. The error occurs on a few
PPT files I got from a vendor. The picture is brought to the front and the
other lines, circles, and text boxes fall behind it. If I can re-create it,
I will ask again, but I guess I am up a tree for now.

PPT's compression tool seems to work fine here and doesn't change the
stacking order. How are you compressing your pictures? Are you using a
third-party add-in?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

When I go to save my PPT and choose to compress all pictures in the file, it
pulls the pictures to the front of all other drawing objects on the screen.
How can I get PowerPoint to leave the stack order of the pictures alone.

 

[Guest]

I'm thinking that your vendor is using an older version of PPT??

I am using the built in Compress Pictures tool in PP2K3. I too tried to
recreate it from a new PPT file, but have no luck. The error occurs on a few
PPT files I got from a vendor. The picture is brought to the front and the
other lines, circles, and text boxes fall behind it. If I can re-create it,
I will ask again, but I guess I am up a tree for now.

PPT's compression tool seems to work fine here and doesn't change the
stacking order. How are you compressing your pictures? Are you using a
third-party add-in?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

When I go to save my PPT and choose to compress all pictures in the file, it
pulls the pictures to the front of all other drawing objects on the screen.
How can I get PowerPoint to leave the stack order of the pictures alone.

 

[Echo S]

Very strange.

As Sandy said, your client could be using an older version of PPT, but I'm
not positive that would affect things.

You might want to try a third-party optimizer. Here are two:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/FAQ00013.htm
http://www.nxpowerlite.com/

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I am using the built in Compress Pictures tool in PP2K3. I too tried to
recreate it from a new PPT file, but have no luck. The error occurs on a few
PPT files I got from a vendor. The picture is brought to the front and the
other lines, circles, and text boxes fall behind it. If I can re-create it,
I will ask again, but I guess I am up a tree for now.

PPT's compression tool seems to work fine here and doesn't change the
stacking order. How are you compressing your pictures? Are you using a
third-party add-in?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

When I go to save my PPT and choose to compress all pictures in the

file,
it

pulls the pictures to the front of all other drawing objects on the screen.
How can I get PowerPoint to leave the stack order of the pictures

alone.