Powerpoint file size huge

[Nagudizy]

My wife has created absolutely huge Powerpoint presentations, but the problem is, they shouldn't be so huge. We are running Office 2000 on a WinXP machine.

Most of her presentations are of the 35-50 slide type, with about 30-40 images (mostly 400kb .jpg). Her presentations range from 116MB to 350MB. Re-saving under a new name, and reducing the image resolution/file size does not substantially change anything.

As an example, using just one slide, with a few words and one 350KB image, the saved .ppt is about 4MB! If I take the same images and produce a .ppt on my work computer (Win2K, Office2K SR1) ... the file size would be minimal.

She likes to copy/paste the images from Windows Explorer into Powerpoint, rather than doing the Insert/Picture/ From File method ... but that doesn't seem to change things either.

Any thoughts on a resolution? Get SR1? Get PP2K?

Thanks. --
Rick K aka Nagudizy
Allah hoo

 

[onedtent]

tools, options, save tab. uncheck "allow fast saves". and save it one mo' time

 

[Nagudizy]

Dearest Self:

Your problem has been resolved. You simply installed SR1 of the Office 2000 updates, and everything is hunky-dory.

Whether that reflects actual fixes within SR1, or perhaps the fact the something mis-configured got correctly set upon SR1 installation ... I do not know.

And, BTW, doing the "Cut/Paste Special/filetype" thing does indeed reduce the file size greatly.

Thank you, self. --
Rick K aka Nagudizy
Allah hoo