Keep Your PowerPoint File Smaller
May 9, 2006 – 5:42 amWe encourage our instructors to use images sparingly in the PowerPoint presentations that we use at the academy. However, it is just as important that the images that are used be used in an intelligent manner. The best way to put images in a presentation is to save the image to your hard drive and then use Insert/Picture/From File to insert your images onto your slides.
If you just paste or drag and drop an image onto a PowerPoint slide, it may create what is known as an embedded OLE object. When you cut and paste, you are not just pasting the image, you also get application overhead that lets you double-click the image on the slide to open up an application window and edit the photo from within PowerPoint. Although that can be convenient, it significantly increases file size. When you are dealing with multiple images, the PowerPoint slide can increase in size quickly.