Controlling the size of the .ppt file

[Dick Stouffer]

I'm using PowerPoint 97 with Win98se

I ask my friends to download my PowerPoint slideshows so I want
to keep the file size as small as possible.

When I experiment with different audio files using Slide Transition
the size of the .ppt tends to grow and grow. Why? I would hope
FileA gets replaced by FileB. I don't want them both in there.

I've tried using "No sound" hoping that would cause the previously used
audio file to be deleted. Sometimes that happens. More often it doesn't.
Puzzling.

How do I keep my .ppt files from becoming bloated with unwanted clutter,
especially no longer used audio files?

Dick Stouffer

 

[Dick Stouffer]

I may have found the solution -- Disallow Fast Saves. Click Tools | Options | Save tab | Uncheck the Allow Fast Saves box.

If there are other tricks to minimizing the .ppt file size, please let me know.

Dick Stouffer

I'm using PowerPoint 97 with Win98se

I ask my friends to download my PowerPoint slideshows so I want
to keep the file size as small as possible.

When I experiment with different audio files using Slide Transition
the size of the .ppt tends to grow and grow. Why? I would hope
FileA gets replaced by FileB. I don't want them both in there.

I've tried using "No sound" hoping that would cause the previously used
audio file to be deleted. Sometimes that happens. More often it doesn't.
Puzzling.

How do I keep my .ppt files from becoming bloated with unwanted clutter,
especially no longer used audio files?

Dick Stouffer

 

[Michael Koerner]

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


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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


I may have found the solution -- Disallow Fast Saves. Click Tools | Options
| Save tab | Uncheck the Allow Fast Saves box.

If there are other tricks to minimizing the .ppt file size, please let me
know.

Dick Stouffer

I'm using PowerPoint 97 with Win98se

I ask my friends to download my PowerPoint slideshows so I want
to keep the file size as small as possible.

When I experiment with different audio files using Slide Transition
the size of the .ppt tends to grow and grow. Why? I would hope
FileA gets replaced by FileB. I don't want them both in there.

I've tried using "No sound" hoping that would cause the previously used
audio file to be deleted. Sometimes that happens. More often it doesn't.
Puzzling.

How do I keep my .ppt files from becoming bloated with unwanted clutter,
especially no longer used audio files?

Dick Stouffer

 

[Dick Stouffer]

Thanks for the referral to PPTOOLS, Michael. Very useful information.

Dick Stouffer

| You might try looking here
| Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
| http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm
|
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| Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
|
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| | I may have found the solution -- Disallow Fast Saves. Click Tools | Options
| | Save tab | Uncheck the Allow Fast Saves box.
|
| If there are other tricks to minimizing the .ppt file size, please let me
| know.
|
| Dick Stouffer
|
| | I'm using PowerPoint 97 with Win98se
|
| I ask my friends to download my PowerPoint slideshows so I want
| to keep the file size as small as possible.
|
| When I experiment with different audio files using Slide Transition
| the size of the .ppt tends to grow and grow. Why? I would hope
| FileA gets replaced by FileB. I don't want them both in there.
|
| I've tried using "No sound" hoping that would cause the previously used
| audio file to be deleted. Sometimes that happens. More often it doesn't.
| Puzzling.
|
| How do I keep my .ppt files from becoming bloated with unwanted clutter,
| especially no longer used audio files?
|
| Dick Stouffer
|
|

 

[Michael Koerner]

Glad we could help.

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| Thanks for the referral to PPTOOLS, Michael. Very useful information.
|
| Dick Stouffer
|
| || You might try looking here
|| Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
|| http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm
||
||
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|| <>Please post all follow-up questions/replies to the newsgroup<>
|| <><>Email unless specifically requested will not be opened<><>
|| <><><>Do Provide The Version Of PowerPoint You Are Using<><><>
|| <><><>Do Not Post Attachments In This Newsgroup<><><>
|| Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
||
||
|| || I may have found the solution -- Disallow Fast Saves. Click Tools |
Options
|| | Save tab | Uncheck the Allow Fast Saves box.
||
|| If there are other tricks to minimizing the .ppt file size, please let me
|| know.
||
|| Dick Stouffer
||
|| || I'm using PowerPoint 97 with Win98se
||
|| I ask my friends to download my PowerPoint slideshows so I want
|| to keep the file size as small as possible.
||
|| When I experiment with different audio files using Slide Transition
|| the size of the .ppt tends to grow and grow. Why? I would hope
|| FileA gets replaced by FileB. I don't want them both in there.
||
|| I've tried using "No sound" hoping that would cause the previously used
|| audio file to be deleted. Sometimes that happens. More often it
doesn't.
|| Puzzling.
||
|| How do I keep my .ppt files from becoming bloated with unwanted clutter,
|| especially no longer used audio files?
||
|| Dick Stouffer
||
||
|