Paul Mundy At 4.68 megabytes, this photo is too big! How can we reduce the size? Reducing the size of PowerPoint presentations

Paul Mundy 1 Double-click on any graphic in the presentation 2 Select the Picture tab. 3 Click on Compress

Paul Mundy 4 Select the All pictures in document and Web/screen radio buttons. 5 Make sure that Compress pictures and Delete cropped areas of pictures are checked. Then click OK.

Paul Mundy 6 On the main menu, click File then Save as, and save the presentation Check the file size to see how much it has shrunk.

Paul Mundy If that does not work, you may have to compress each image manually 1 Open the presentation in PowerPoint and double-click on a photo you suspect is still too big

Paul Mundy 2 Select the Size tab and check the Scale information. This shows how large the original picture is If the Scale is small (e.g., 32%), the compression did not work

Paul Mundy 3 Click Cancel… then right-click on the photo and select Copy

Paul Mundy 4 On the main menu, select Edit > Paste Special

Paul Mundy 5 Select Picture (JPEG) and click OK 7 Select File > Save as… > Save 6 Delete the original picture and replace it with the one you have just pasted

Paul Mundy 7 Check in Internet Explorer if the file size is smaller Repeat this for each photo where the Scale is small