How to downsize a Microsoft 97 file - can you help me please

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I recreated a brand new PowerPoint file copying the pictures from an existing
PowerPoint file - as a practice for future use.

The old file was 36,234KB - and the new one was 154,745KB.

Could you please advise me on why its over 4 times as large.
SGray
 
This should help
Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm


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|I recreated a brand new PowerPoint file copying the pictures from an
existing
| PowerPoint file - as a practice for future use.
|
| The old file was 36,234KB - and the new one was 154,745KB.
|
| Could you please advise me on why its over 4 times as large.
| SGray
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| SGray
 
I recreated a brand new PowerPoint file copying the pictures from an existing
PowerPoint file - as a practice for future use.

The old file was 36,234KB - and the new one was 154,745KB.
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Wild guess: you're working in a later version of PPT and saved it as a previous
version to make it compatible with PPT 97.

If that's the case, then that's the problem.

You don't need to save it in any special format for backward compatibility as
far as 97. That option is for PowerPoint 95 as well, which is what makes the
file sizes grow so ... PPT 95 didn't support image compression.

Follow the setup instrux here:

Do this before using PowerPoint seriously
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm

Then open the file again and save as a regular PPT presentation.
 
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