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For PowerPoint, I downloaded a trial version of a program called
NXPowerLite (www.nxpowerlite.com), which was highly recommended by
Lockergnome. NXPowerLite optimizes PPT files according to how you intend
to use them. The free trial version is fully functional, but can be used
only 10 times before you have to purchase ($45.00).
Someone had sent me a file that clocked in at about 7.3 MB. Using
NXPowerLite, I created a high-resolution version good for printing,
which came out to only 788 KB. I also created a lower-resolution version
that's good for projecting on a screen, which came out to only 307 KB!
Never needed NXPowerLite enough to buy it, but those are pretty good
numbers.
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melissa Nelson
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:19 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Controlling Document Sizes
>
> OK, I am not quite sure what my boss is talking about so I am
> going to ask
> this in a very general term, in hopes that I can figure it
> out through your
> various answers.
>
> My manager asked me if I know how to control the size of Word
> and PowerPoint
> documents as he say his documents keep getting bigger in
> terms of file size.
> He does not want them to contain less content or
> illustrations, just to be
> smaller file sizes. Does anyone have any helpful hints on how
> to do this?
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