![]() Be especially careful not to paste too many screen captures directly into your PowerPoint slides as they can quickly inflate your file size. If you’re using a lot of pictures you may have to reduce your images’ sizes in a photo editing program to the exact sizes you need (rather than resizing them in PowerPoint) or save them to a lower resolution (at least web quality). With various presentation experts such as Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte recommending the use of more photographic images in presentations, I imagine more presenters are running into this problem. One of the fastest and easiest ways to bloat your PowerPoint presentation is with oversized, high resolution images. Here are some useful options to consider the next time you find yourself in this unfortunate but common situation: Picture Compression PowerPoint 2007 has zip compression technology built into its new PPTX file format so zipping a large PPT 2007 file will have little effect on reducing its size as it’s already compressed. What can you do in these stressful situations besides curling up under your desk and sucking your thumb in the fetal position? One typical solution in the past to this type of problem has been to use a compression technology like WinZip to reduce the size of a large PPT file. You may be used to the judicious email attachment limits at your company (10-15 MB), but your recipient’s company may be ruled by the iron fist of a merciless IT overlord. ![]() Ugggh!ĭespite the advancement of server capacity and lower storage costs, many IT departments are still fairly draconian in how they limit email messages to less than 7 MB in size. One small problem - as you check your email or voicemail the next day, the intended recipient of your presentation states that he never received the file and is urgently requesting it. What a relief that you were able to submit everything on time, and you’re confident that you’ll receive great feedback on all your hard work (promotion, hello?). You put a lot of time and effort into your slides - crafting a cohesive message, choosing some great images, and building some advanced animation effects. You killed yourself to complete a PowerPoint presentation on a short deadline. ![]() ![]() ![]() How can I get this 18 MB PPT file to our client in Chicago in the next 7 minutes? (c) iStockPhoto / contour99 ![]()
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