19 Jun 09 Reduce the Size of your PowerPoint File for e-mail

 

Problem:I just made a slide show of my honeymoon to Hawaii with PowerPoint. I want to share it with my friends and relatives. However, it is too big to send as e-mail attachment. What shall I do？

Solutions:You need to reduce the size of your PowerPoint slideshow. The following solutions will help you reduce the size of your PowerPoint.

1. Change graphics file formats to reduce the size of PowerPoint:

There may be many images in graphic formats like bitmap (.bmp) in your PowerPoint presentation. You can open bitmap images with a program like Microsoft accessory tool -Paint to converts images and save them in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf to make your presentation smaller. Once your images have been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your slide.

It is a little time-consuming to save all the images again if there are lots of pictures.

 

2. Use file Save as:

 

This method can reduce the size of the file by up to 50% in some cases.

Step 1: Open the PowerPoint slide show.

Step 2: Click Microsoft office button .

·         Under the pop-up window click save as arrow.

·         In the file type dropdown list Choose PowerPoint presentation.

·         Type a new name and click save.

 

3. Compress Pictures in PowerPoint:

 

 Compress pictures in your presentation, then you can optimize the size by compressing pictures.

Step1:click the picture to bring up the Picture Tools .

·         Under the picture tool tab just Click Format.

·         In the Adjust group click Compress Pictures.

Step2: on the Compress Pictures window choose the Options…

Step3: on the Compression Settings window:

·         Compression options: automatically perform basic compression on save and delete cropped areas of pictures.

·         Target output: Choose E-mail (96 ppi) output to reduce the size of PowerPoint Click ok. 

4. Converting your PowerPoint presentation to flash:

 

You could try to convert your presentation to Flash and send the Flash file to others. The music will be embedded in Flash presentation. And then the flash slide show could be show on other computers without any problems.

Some third party presentation tool such as Wondershare PPT2Flash Standard can help you do this work. You can convert it with one click. Of course, all the original effect can be retained in Flash. Alternatively, you can also convert your PowerPoint presentation to video. 

Note:If your slide show is too large with hundreds of MB, you may also consider saving it on DVD for distributing and sharing. Wondershare PPT2DVD would help you save your PowerPoint slide show to DVD with music and all animations retained.

19 Mar 09 Stunning DVD Menu Theme to Make You Look Professional with Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.3

As the first provider to provide PowerPoint to DVD solutions, we also are the first company to provide the DVD menu theme to make our customers look more professional when creating DVD from PowerPoint presentation.

In the new version PPT2DVD 5.3, we add the DVD menu theme settings based on templates. After you apply a menu theme, a suite of root menu, title menu and the play options menu with matched frames and icons will be available. You may learn it from the illustration below. 

                                                                  DVD menu theme

Then, what is the difference and benefits of such DVD menu theme compared with the previous templates?
You may learn it from the two illustrations below.

 
                                                        Menus from PPT2DVD 5.2.0

                                                         Menus from PPT2DVD 5.3.0 or Above Version

In the previous version Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.2, the background of the DVD menu templates are the same.

In the new version of Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.3, the backgrounds of the root menu, title menu and the play options menu are not the same but a series of similar pictures.
   
Besides the benefits of the menu theme, there are more new features you may like:

• Project description, yes, this is a new feature suggested by one of our customers Stephen. It is necessary for you to add a summery if the presentations are focus on one theme.
• Additional DVD templates, you can download the free DVD menu templates to customize your DVD menu from the menu resource page. 
• More vivid buttons, frames and icons can be available now for you to customoize your DVD menu.

We hope you can enjoy your time with Wondershare PPT2DVD and we will continually to improve the program with your support.