Ken forwarded me a Power point presentation with embedded music and asked: I was intrigued when I received this presentation and decided that I wanted to create a Power Point .PPS presentation using some of the photos we took on our recent China trip. After much Help Menu reading, and some trial and error processing, I successfully prepared a presentation including some imbedded music. Since it plays, when I installed it on another computer, I confirmed that the music is imbedded.

Here's my problem the finished file is 40+MB, too large to e-mail. The photos take up about 5MB. For my background music I converted a 4+MB .mp3 file to a .wav file (required by Power Point) and it ballooned to a whopping 35MB.

To try to understand how the Dali attachment was compressed to 2MB, I converted the .pps file to a .ppt file. The music used in that file was imbedded with a reference title of MENDAB~1.WAV. Tried to check out this unusual title, but no success. Couldn't determine the separate size of the photo file and music file.

Can you give me any clues as to how I can reduce my file size (especially the music) for emailing. I tried .zip and that only reduced it to 37MB. Thanks for any suggestions.


Wow! Good question.

I have seen these before, but never played with Power Point for anything, much less for a picture slide show. I did a lot of searching using different criteria and found the tips and hints in the RELATED LINKS below. However, I didn't come up with any real guidelines on how to get a small file.

I think the answer to this one is to reduce the size of the WAV file before inserting it. Likewise, reducing the size of the JPG files prior to insertion will also reduce the overall file size. Ken's question was mainly about the WAV files. See the RELATED LINK below for some tips and software for compressing these.

RELATED LINK: Power Point Tips and Tutorials.

RELATED LINK: MS Power Point Page.

RELATED LINK: Compress WAV files.