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officeidiot — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:14:00 -0000

I cannot find the tools menu. it is not on the "Save As" pop down menu

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AP — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:00:58 -0000

Thanks for your idea. My file went from 29MB to 8MB using the compression tool.

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Anmol — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:09:51 -0000

thanxx a tonne.. god bless u... it reduces the size straight by 50% (depending upon the images contained of course)... great tip.. i was finally able to email the once 11.5 MB file after i compressed it to 3.36
i used to consider myself a pro but didnt know this.. thanks again !!

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Hannah — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:15:27 -0000

THANKYOUU!!!!!

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dipak — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:48:41 -0000

thanks , extra ordinary, it works and very useful

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Whatever — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:56:04 -0000

Went from a 7.21 to 3.56! Thanks! I had made a presentation that I thought was pointless because I couldn't email it!

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Itchy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:23:48 -0000

Thank you much!!! 11M -> 3M
Project emailed -- thanks for the help.

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Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:59:07 -0000

FYI - The methods above only work for office 2002 and later. This link tells you a somewhat slower way that works in office 2000:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA...

Basically, you "cut" or "copy" the big pictures, then Edit->Paste Special and paste them back as a JPG or PNG. Apparently, PowerPoint pastes them as bitmaps by default.

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Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:43:41 -0000

PowerPoint 2000 didn't have a "Compress Pictures" option on the Save As->Tools menu.

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DeadlyPersona — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:55:55 -0000

In 2007, you have to click File - Save As and then look all the way to the bottom on the left-hand side and you should see Tools with a drop-down arrow. And I found it only compressed my file from 420kb to 400kb.

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DeadlyPersona — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:55:22 -0000

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Lorena — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:46:03 -0000

hmmm, I didn't find the "tools" drop down menu in ppt 2007. Instead, by selecting a picture, I got the format tab at the top. Then to the far left a "compress picture" button. This brought up a dialog box that followed along with step 6 on in the above instructions.

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nikhil — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:47:04 -0000

fantastic........God Bless You!!

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jef — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:47:34 -0000

it didn't work for 2007 powerpoint