What Upgrade to PP2000?

[Longfellow]

Newbie to PP.
Was sent a pps 'The Earth' - brilliant, 32 photos and music.
Tried to edit this, added my photos over existing, delete
existing, select, resize mine. Its excellent, but its 13.8 MB.
My photos are 2048x1540 pix and 300 dpi.
I batch reduced the photos to 1048x769 pix, and re-edited.
The file is now 6.18 MB.
So reduce a few to 800X600, delete a couple and I'll be at
the 5 MB to attach email limit.
Now.
I am using MS Office 2000 PowerPoint (+SP1 SP2 SP3).
My son has a version PowerPoint 2002 that has a compress
function inbuilt. Select a slide, in the drop down Format menu
is 'compress' and an option to 'compress all'.
And it takes my 13.8 MB down to 2.8MB.
I'm keen to get an upgrade with this function.
What do I need to buy. Please.

 

[Austin Myers]

What do I need to buy. Please.

PowerPoint 2003 as an upgrade, not the full retail version. Be aware, you
MUST have the original PowerPoint 2000 CDs to do this upgrade. You might
also consider the Teacher/student (full) version of Office. The price is
right.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am using MS Office 2000 PowerPoint (+SP1 SP2 SP3).
My son has a version PowerPoint 2002 that has a compress
function inbuilt. Select a slide, in the drop down Format menu
is 'compress' and an option to 'compress all'.
And it takes my 13.8 MB down to 2.8MB.
I'm keen to get an upgrade with this function.
What do I need to buy. Please.

The current version is 2003 -- the upgrade to 2002 may no longer be available,.

2003 has the same features, though, so if you can get an upgrade to it, you
should be fine.

You might find some of the suggestions here useful (and less expensive than
upgrading)

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

 

[Longfellow]

Certainly, today is my lucky day!
Today's Computeractive has a Workshop and freebie download.
It will take a folder of 2048x1540 pix jpegs and resize them
to 1024x768 pix at 80% jpeg and resize the 'portrait' jpegs to 589x786 pix.
AND load them into a separate folder called 'Resize' that is within
the original folder, so the originals are intact.
96 original at 42.1 MB became 7.9 MB, an 81% reduction.

But the additional facilities in Office PowerPoint 2003 Upgrade,
are probably worth the money.
Thanks to All.

Jack

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Certainly, today is my lucky day!
Today's Computeractive has a Workshop and freebie download.
It will take a folder of 2048x1540 pix jpegs and resize them
to 1024x768 pix at 80% jpeg and resize the 'portrait' jpegs to 589x786 pix.
AND load them into a separate folder called 'Resize' that is within
the original folder, so the originals are intact.
96 original at 42.1 MB became 7.9 MB, an 81% reduction.

Very nice!

You might also want to take a look at Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com
It's free and can do this kind of batch processing (and lots more ... a real
Swiss Army Knife for images)