How to determine the size of individual slides in a PowerPoint slide deck

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I have a powerpoint file containing images and it has gotten too big for emailing and I need to decide which slides to cut out. But how can I tell which slides are consuming all the space? There could be just a few slides containing over-large images, but how do I know which slides they are? Is there any way to know the filesize of individual slides?

Best Answer

There is a built-in way to measure slides! Publish all slides and use Windows Explorer.

Publishing all slides to an empty folder creates as many presentations as slides you have. Each new presentation stands for one slide and its Windows Explorer file size shows you which slide has the biggest pictures/audio/video.

  1. File, Save & Send, Publish Slides, Publish Slides (button)
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  2. Select All - I recommend using Select All the first time so you can see the size of all your slides. Choose destination Windows folder. Publish
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  3. Review sizes and you can launch each individual-slide powerpoint file to see which one it is and whether you can reduce the size. After you have made ammendments you can individually choose which slides to Publish and see what effect your edits have made.
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    In my sample I had 3 slides with different kinds of media. And the first slide with 12 MB was indeed the biggest one.

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