[Year 12 IPM] Compressing Powerpoint Files_OT

[Terri Van Zetten]

I have Office 2000 in my lab, however if I (or the kids) need to
upload or email a PPT, I (or we) take it to a computer with PPT 2003.
In Office 2003 (and Office XP I think), on the picture toolbar there
is a compress option, you click on the picture, then choose the
little compress picture tool and the options are there.

I converted 50 or so pics from a school camp to 640 by 480, but the
PPT the kids put together was around 12mb from memory, we took it to
the APs computer, did the compress image thing and it went down to
1.6MB!  Pretty easy and done so that it is easy to explain to non
technical teachers.

Cheers, Terri.

---- Original Message ----
From: keithcr at fastmail.fm
To: ipm at edulists.com.au
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Compressing Powerpoint Files_OT
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:49:02 +1000

>Anne - the most important thing with Powerpoint files is that the
>pictures MUST be of a small filesize first. If not they will bloat
>the
>powerpoint filesize beyond recognition.
>Therefore, take each of the images, note the final screen dimensions
>you
>want (e.g. 300pixels wide for example) then using a program such as
>Irfanview, resize (Ctrl-R) to this, and apply a compression of, say
>80,
>when saving to a jpg file type.
>Then delete each of the images and re-insert the size-reduced ones.
>Sounds messy, and it is, but the file size will reduce dramatically.
>NOTE - obviously, small sized images should have been used in the
>first
>place, but most of us forget about that.
>Cheers, Keith
>
>
>
>On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:44:40 +1000, murch at tpg.com.au said:
>> Could someone please help me with compressing powerpoint files to a
>size
>> small enough to send via 
>> email?  Can it be done and if so how?  Much appreciated. Can email
>me
>> direct if you wish.
>> Thanks in advance
>> Anne Mirtschin
>> Hawkesdale p12 College
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