Anne,<br>Using "Insert -> Picture -> From File" instead of copying and pasting or dragging in also dramatically reduces the final product.<br><br>Joseph Papaleo<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Richardson</b> <<a href="mailto:keithcr@fastmail.fm">keithcr@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Anne - the most important thing with Powerpoint files is that the<br>pictures MUST be of a small filesize first. If not they will bloat the<br>powerpoint filesize beyond recognition.<br>Therefore, take each of the images, note the final screen dimensions you
<br>want (e.g. 300pixels wide for example) then using a program such as<br>Irfanview, resize (Ctrl-R) to this, and apply a compression of, say 80,<br>when saving to a jpg file type.<br>Then delete each of the images and re-insert the size-reduced ones.
<br>Sounds messy, and it is, but the file size will reduce dramatically.<br>NOTE - obviously, small sized images should have been used in the first<br>place, but most of us forget about that.<br>Cheers, Keith<br><br><br><br>
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