At some point in your slideshow-creating life, you've probably saved a PowerPoint presentation and realized that the file size is entirely too large. Larger file sizes make PowerPoints more difficult ...

If you are working on a large PowerPoint presentation that presents multiple slides in a slideshow, the PowerPoint file grows in size with every picture you add. Attempt to send the final slideshow ...

The more you add information to your PowerPoint, the more it increases, mainly when your presentation consists of videos, audio, and images. Due to the increased file size when opening a presentation, ...

If you've ever tried to email a Powerpoint presentation or grab it on your USB drive for quick transport, you know that the poorly compressed images within the .ppt file tend to really bulk it up.

The average PowerPoint deck can get crazy insane big -- megabytes of images, video, and other rich media can make your presentation too large to e-mail, and even bog down a slugging network connection ...