Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 – Compressing Pictures

You can ask PowerPoint to compress pictures in your presentation so that you can optimize your presentations more efficiently. With this decreased size you can email them and transport them easily.

To allow for maximum amount of editing later, PowerPoint saves pictures within presentations in a poorly compressed format. When working on a presentation locally, this is highly desirable because it gives you the most flexibility in editing later. However, when trying to get your huge PowerPoint file small enough to fit into an email or on a USB drive, this can be a problem. Here’s how to decrease the sizes.

1. Click Save

2. Click the Tools drop down menu besides the save button

3. Select Compress Pictures

4. Click Options

5. Check automatically perform basic compression on save

6. Check Delete cropped areas of pictures

7. Check the appropriate target output (print, screen, or email)

8. Click OK