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

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

3. Paul Mundy www.mamud.com 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.

4. Paul Mundy www.mamud.com 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.

5. Paul Mundy www.mamud.com 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

6. Paul Mundy www.mamud.com 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

7. Paul Mundy www.mamud.com 3 Click Cancel… then right-click on the photo and select Copy

8. Paul Mundy www.mamud.com 4 On the main menu, select Edit > Paste Special

9. Paul Mundy www.mamud.com 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

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