My company recently created a new PowerPoint template. On its own without any slides, it is 9MB in size. This is completely unusable for sending to mobile devices and annoys customers. The main culprit is high resolution images on the master slides. Most of the time I don't use the 8 slides with the high resolution images. I have tried compressing the images, but that only get's the template down to 5MB empty, still too big.
Is there anyway to save the presentation an automatically discard the unused giant master slides. Obviously I can go in and delete the master slides, but was wondering if there is anything that allows you to automatically do this.
Best Answer
View as "slide masters". When you mouse over each slide master, you can see if that slide master is used. You can individually delete each slide master. Looks especially for those with pictures and remove the ones not used.
If you highlight the first slide, then keep hitting Delete repeatedly, only the slide templates that are not in use will be deleted. This is an easy way to manually roll through the templates quickly without worrying about removing one that is in use.