Microsoft products such as PowerPoint are immensely powerful tools that can enable users to create documents and presentations rich with photos and other images. A side effect of this ability is very large file sizes---especially when it comes to image-rich presentations. This has two consequences:
- It takes up valuable space in an Online@UT (Canvas) course site’s Files area.
- It makes it much harder for students to quickly and efficiently download and view the presentation.
However, Microsoft offers a setting in its Office products that allows instructors to keep high quality, image-heavy documents while still maintaining a smaller overall file size. The function is called Compress Pictures.
Please visit the following support guide for instructions on compressing pictures: Compress pictures to reduce the file size in Office
Even a simple reduction in image size from uncompressed to the “Print (220 ppi)” option using the Compress Pictures function can reduce a PowerPoint presentation by more than 90%!