July 15, 2002

A trick for reducing file size

MasterView International

by Luigi Canali De Rossi



July 15th, 2002

To Billie, who was asking:

"Hello!

I read somewhere on the internet that you can reduce the size of your
presentation file by inserting a blank slide at the beginning of your
presentation. It seems to work, but now I can't find where I read this
little known tip. Do you know about this?? Thanks."

Luigi found this trick, which was also discussed by me in the first
issue of MasterView:

Dear Billie,

Thanks for contacting us in trying to resolve this. We are happy to find
solutions that can help both you and all of our other international
readers.



A trick for reducing file size

ZD Tips,

March 13, 2001



If your presentations include several graphics and/or embedded objects,
you know how much disk space they require. One way to reduce the file
size, is to include a blank slide at the beginning of the presentation.

Although it seems as though adding a blank slide at the beginning of a
presentation would increase file size, the opposite is true. The blank
slide serves as the preview image -- the image PowerPoint displays when
you select a file in the Open dialog box. Since a blank slide is far less
complex than the "real" first slide, the preview image is much
smaller, thereby reducing the size of the presentation file.

http://www.zdnetindia.com/help/specials/
powerpoint/stories/16501.html



Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, but I hope this was what you
were looking for.

With my warmest regards,



Luigi Canali De Rossi

 

You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.


posted by Robin Good on Monday, July 15 2002
Tuesday, January 15 2008

URL of this article:
http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/2002/07/15/a_trick_for_reducing_file.htm


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