Minimizing the size of a Powerpoint presentation

I have seen, some times the powerpoint presentations get so big that you don't know what to do. PowerPoint presentations mainly get big in size due to high resolution pictures added to them. Let's say you want to send a draft copy of a presentation to a colleague for a review.You don't have to send a 'big' presentation. You can minimize the size of the presentation by following these steps:

1. Open the Powerpoint presentation that needs to be 'compressed'
2. Right Click on one of the pictures in the presentation and select the option 'Format Picture'
3. Select 'Compress' from the 'Picture' tab
4. Cilck on 'Compress'
5. Select 'All pictures in the document' and 'Web/Screen' options
6. Click 'OK'
7. If you get a dialogue box, warning that the quality of the image will reduce, go ahead and select 'Apply'
8. click 'OK' in the format picture dialoge box

You have just minimizes the size of the presentation. But it's a good idea to keep the original presentation, in case you want to produce some high quality printouts. My recommendation is to save this as seconday document.For example, if the original presentation is abc.ppt, then minized one can be named as abc_small.ppt. In that way, you can easily idenifythe presentation.

You can minimize the size of a Powerpoint presentation by upto 20 times!! and you'll hardly notice the reduction in the quality of imagesif you're viewing from a computer screen.