Locate the source of my large ppt file.

[Kurt K.]

Hello. I have a powerpoint file with loads of pictures, and I wounder what
pictures that I need to remove/resize to get the total size of the ppt file
down. Does anyone know if I can find out how large each picture in my
presentation is? Thanks in advance

 

[David Marcovitz]

Hello. I have a powerpoint file with loads of pictures, and I wounder what
pictures that I need to remove/resize to get the total size of the ppt file
down. Does anyone know if I can find out how large each picture in my
presentation is? Thanks in advance

You will probably get some good ideas for reducing the size of your
PowerPoint file here:

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

--David

 

[Kurt]

Thanks, thats an great article. The problem is that the SizeMe add-in does
not work with Powerpoint 2007. I find it wierd that there is no information
about the size of each slide, or each element in a slide, so that I more
easily could figure out what I have to focus on to cut the size of my file.

 

[David Marcovitz]

You might try saving your file as a Web page (*.html). This will pull
out all the pictures and sounds into a separate folder. You could sort
that folder by size and see which picture or sound is the largest. I
know this is convoluted for something that you feel should be a feature
in the program, but I'm afraid that's the way it is.
--David

 

[Kurt]

Thanks, that is a great suggestion

You might try saving your file as a Web page (*.html). This will pull
out all the pictures and sounds into a separate folder. You could sort
that folder by size and see which picture or sound is the largest. I
know this is convoluted for something that you feel should be a feature
in the program, but I'm afraid that's the way it is.
--David

--
David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Tom]

To get the size down, maybe try one of the compression/optimization app's
NXPowerlite or PPT Minimizer? I'm not affiliated with either but do use both
and sometimes the file size difference is incredible after optimizing.