Re: Powerpoint to word conversion

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Any reason to not skip the Word format middle man? Just go directly to PDF?

Joe McF wrote:

I recently learned that we can send a Powerpoint presentation for a Word doc in various formats. I'm a technical trainer am\nd this is a great tool for converting a presentation to a training guide of users manual, But...

When I converted my first real presentation--58 slides--the resulting Word doc was huge 315 MB. I can only guess it's because the conversion process inserts individual "slide objects" into the document versus some picture format.

Is there any way to reduce the file size, maybe by forcing the conversion to use JPEG (or other graphic format) objects versus slide objects. Third party solution are an option if anyone knows of any.

I'm already moving the resulting word doc to a pdf, which helps for distribution but doesn't reduce the source document storage size or the resulting performance impact of working with such a large file.

Thanks for any advice



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