{"id":8600,"date":"2022-02-21T16:56:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T21:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2022-02-21T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T21:56:49","slug":"reducing-the-size-of-a-powerpoint-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8600","title":{"rendered":"Reducing the Size of a PowerPoint File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anya\u2019s school work submission platform limits files to ten meg \u2013 when she embedded a dozen 3d images in a single presentation to create a seventy meg file? That was an easy fix \u2013 drop the 3d object down to a PNG. But her most recent presentation was just photos from the web, and it was just over the ten meg limit. Fortunately (or unfortunately in this case) the more recent Office document formats are already compressed \u2026 so you cannot just zip up the file to shrink it. We learned a quick way to reduce the size of a PowerPoint presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Select one of the pictures in the presentation. On the \u201cPicture Format\u201d tab, find the \u201cCompress Pictures\u201d button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1303\" height=\"567\" class=\"wp-image-8601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-14.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-14.png 1303w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-14-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-14-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-14-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-14-750x326.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1303px) 100vw, 1303px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you know there is one really high-resolution picture (or a single picture where you cropped out most of it), selecting just that picture and leaving \u201capply only to this picture\u201d checked makes sense. But, generally, I apply the compression to <em>all<\/em> images. Select a resolution that\u2019s reasonable \u2013 we\u2019ve used \u201cPrint\u201d and reduced an eleven meg file to just over four meg. Using \u201cWeb\u201d as the resolution reduced the file to just over a meg.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"357\" height=\"268\" class=\"wp-image-8602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-15.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-15.png 357w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/word-image-15-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anya\u2019s school work submission platform limits files to ten meg \u2013 when she embedded a dozen 3d images in a single presentation to create a seventy meg file? That was an easy fix \u2013 drop the 3d object down to a PNG. But her most recent presentation was just photos from the web, and it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[691,729,734,742,1527,741],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-powerpoint","tag-ms-powerpoint","tag-office","tag-powerpoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8603,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions\/8603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}