Size of Presentation blew up

[Steve]

Windows 2000 office 2003.

I brought in an excel file and size of ppt file went from
1.5mg to 7.5 mg. Spreadsheet is not that big, maybe 1 meg.
How can I get size of ppt back down?

Imported an excel spreadsheet. It has 4 tabs, 3 have data
with rows down to 800 and columns to CA. No pretty
formatting, just data and some outlines. tab 4 has a
quick summary by month hlookuped from 3 years tabs, tab 5
has graph.

Thanks
Steve

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Steve

Hopefully one of the things mentioned on this page

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

Will help you minimise the size of the file.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Steve Rindsberg]

I brought in an excel file and size of ppt file went from
1.5mg to 7.5 mg.

Brought in how exactly? And more than once? If you copy/paste, it embeds the
whole XLS file in your PPT. Once for each time you paste.

Spreadsheet is not that big, maybe 1 meg.

 

[Steve]

Actually it was an excel file that I used imported using
Insert / Object / create from file / browsed and grabbed
the excel file.

Powerpoint file grew by more than 2 meg.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Actually it was an excel file that I used imported using
Insert / Object / create from file / browsed and grabbed
the excel file.

Practically speaking, that's about the same as repeatedly copy/pasting.

If you just need the appearance but not the connection to the actual data
itself, ungroup the Excel objects. That'll toss out the data and leave you
with just a graphic of the data.

Otherwise, I'd open the XLS, select what you want, choose Edit Copy.
Switch to PPT, choose Edit, Paste Special, click Link, click OK.