Please help me out! I've got a Powerpoint presentation for school due soon, and the file is too big to put on a flash stick. It's over 250 MB! Is that normal? And can I save it to a CD and still have a song from another Cd play during it? I have pictures on it, but not that many. It's only like, 23 slides. HELP!!
2007-01-01 08:05:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I do know a little as I help some speakers with their PowerPoint presentations. I find that if you have a cover (title) slide as your first slide might take up a lot of MB. If you can save the presentation on a CD and then download it to the computer where you will be playing the presentation from and then run the CD with the song. I would check the slides with the graphics and see if you can make some adjustments. I hope that helps!
2007-01-01 08:11:16 · answer #1 · answered by JAD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a bigger flash memory stick :P
Seriously that is far to big. What sort of files are included in the PowerPoint?
Do you have some really large photos? If so can you resize them to a resolutions of 600x400 pixels?
Doing this will help save a lot of space.
You could save it onto a CD but you couldn't have a song from another CD playing on it unless ou put that other CD in a separate CD player.
Do you have an MP3 player that looks just like a flash drive?
If so and the size of the MP3 player is a 512 MB then put it on there. They aren't exclusively for MP3s ;)
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Hope this has helped
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Gareth
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2007-01-01 16:22:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try going into File\Pack and Go menu. This feature gets you into a Wizard which "assists you in packing your entire presentation -including linked files-and moving it to another computer, to floppy disks, to a flash stick, to your hard drive, or directly to another computer on your network".
The wizard gives you an option to include the "Viewer" or not. If your final destination computer has PowerPoint on it already, you do not have to include the Viewer, which saves room on your stick as well.
I created a 1-slide sample "Sample 1.ppt" of 24 KB, then when I did the "Pack & Go" (compressed the files) which you could include links to your CD, 2 files were created: "pres0.pp1" of 1 KB and "pres0.ppz" of 11 KB. At least the "compression" reduces it by about 1/2 the size. I would assume then to copy over those 2 files to the other computer to run your presentation & the PowerPoint software on that system will run it.
To unpack your presentation I think you would have to go back into the File\Run & Go to uncompress your files to continue.
I personally have yet to try this myself, so I would recommend you test it out ahead of time.
Good luck on your presentation! Hope this helps you out.
Good tips above mentioning about the size of the actual slide file. I have worked with a lot of "decks" (slide presentations) and some can be quite large depending on the graphics and the format used.
2007-01-01 16:54:27 · answer #3 · answered by Wendy (from Ottawa, Canada) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry the size is close to normal, you can save it to a 700 mb cd available in stores like wal-mart, staples etc but if you want music playing during your presentation, you can put music on your slides or have a seperate cd player play music while your presenting your project but you can also use your same cd that you have your photos on but you have to make sure that the size of the photos and the size of your project will fit on the cd. That's all the ideas i can think of.
2007-01-01 16:22:02 · answer #4 · answered by J. T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although anything is possible, it doesn't sound normal to me. If you want to take the time, you could copy a slide to its own file, then check that file's properties. If it is reasonable, you might try this with a couple more slides. You might find the offender this way.
I can't think of what you might have done to have caused a file this size. Would be interested to know if you solve the problem.
2007-01-01 16:51:06 · answer #5 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is to big for 23 slides , what thing you have on the presentation, yes you can put it in cd , cd have 800 mb
2007-01-01 16:10:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, don't panic. You screwed up with the pictures by using .bmp format which is the biggest format. Take each picture and use photo editor and convert it to .jpg format and insert that into the slide. That should knock it down to 25-30MB at worst.
2007-01-01 16:10:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Really it is abnormal to have it that big size. If it is really that size, then you can use some zipping software like winzip or winrar.
Good luck!!
2007-01-01 16:10:11 · answer #8 · answered by Truth Seeker 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋