How to know the size in bytes of individual slides

[Richard Fisher]

When saving Powerpoint files quite often they are very large (>6MB) -
usually because I use quite a lot of graphics. This means that for emailing
they take a long time to go, and a long time to read - even when zipped.
Does anyone know how you can tell the size of a slide in bytes - e.g. the
size of the image imbedded within the slide or the size of the whole slide?

Thanks in advance.....Richard

[TAJ Simmons]

Richard,

I'm not sure about answering your question....but you can normally tell the
bloated images by flicking thur each page in your presentation in slide mode
(not slideshow), any image that takes longer to display is bloated!

See this tutorial for details
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm

cheers
TAJ
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[Echo S]

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Richard, you could save the individual slides as presentations and then
check the size in Explorer. That would give you an idea of how big each
individual slide size is.

You might want to experiment with Scrap files, too. If you drag slides from
slide sorter view onto your desktop, you'll get a Scrap file. I just did
this and got a 1553KB scrap. When I double-clicked the file and opened it in
PPT and then used Save a Copy As, I ended up with a 153KB file. Don't have
time to play with this right now, but I wonder if just dropping a 0 off the
scrap size would give you a good feel for PPT file size?

--
Echo
MS PPT MVP
http://www.echosvoice.com

[Steve Rindsberg]

There's probably no realistic way to tell exactly how much each slide
contributes to the overall file size other than deleting it and saving a
copy of the presentation.

If you want to know what sort of things to avoid in the future, the usual
culprits are oversized bitmaps (images that are larger than they need to be
for the use you'll put the presentation to) and stuff that you've
copy/pasted into PPT, creating an OLE embedded object.

If you want to shrink a particular presentation down to size, see
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/ and have a look at the info about the
Optimizer. <g>

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[cratan...@gmail.com]

Let's try to use "Publish Slides" first by select all slides then right Click and choose "Publish Slides" to individually create as single PPT file per one slide into the folder you want.

Then sort the files "Size" and look around.

Good Luck, Joel