Compress Pictures

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Marilyn Jess — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:35:41 GMT

What and where is the picture ribbon? Please do not define things using jargon! I cannot find how to even start doing this. "Not only is it clearly displayed in the Picture Ribbon,"

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Sigh — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:48:01 GMT

The new way is awful compared to the old way. The 2003 way was quick and easy to find. It is now complete bloat.

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clambam — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:32:23 GMT

For those interested in permanently turning off this "feature," here is a link with instructions on how to edit your Registry: www.technospot.net/.../how-to-disable-image-compression-in-power-point-2007 Don't forget to unclick "Delete cropped areas of pictures" under the compression option. This is a one-time fix--it sticks in future PowerPoint sessions. However, when opening existing PowerPoints and saving them as new files, you still have to select the Tools button and manually turn off automatic image compression for the new file.

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clambam — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:39:20 GMT

Among all the many awful, awful things you people have done to PowerPoint, this ranks among the worst. How do I PERMANENTLY turn off the automatic picture compression? Do I have to reset it every time I work in this program? I work for an architect, we are constantly resizing and recropping our images once they're in PowerPoint and this feature has already cost me several hours of work reinserting, resizing and recropping images (and the enmity of several coworkers whom I've accused of prematurely compressing their images) before I figured out it was your fault. The whole PowerPoint paradigm points up the dangers of people whose livelihoods don't depend on doing presentations designing presentation software. I am recommending to my superiors that we junk 2007 completely and switch back to 2003.

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Christian — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:53:43 GMT

I always used this compress option to

- CROP images so that sensitive parts of my desktop were not saved and I had only the screenshot

- NOT reduce the quality: I wanted the non-croped pixels to stay the same! This dialogue looks like it will not allow me to choose "Leave DPI alone, don't resize"! What if I want no resize, but need cropping-removal? I'm afraif of blurriness. Screenshots should NEVER be resized! They only look great in original size or if at most one resizing was done

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Echo — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:13:22 GMT

I'm not sure I like the automatic removal of the crop. I understand why you've added it, but I know some of us have come to rely on this bizarre quirk of PPT. (I use it often when I've received files from others and I need to get at the originals. Since they didn't know about the "compress pictures" options, the original was usually there, just waiting for me to free it from the nonproportionate sizing and weird crops inflicted upon it by unknowing users.) I'm glad someone else posted that they're not thrilled with the new crop behavior -- I thought it would just be me. Also, is there a way to change the 220 default PPI? (Maybe a registry hack?)

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LGFN — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:16:16 GMT

Great post!! looking forward for more!

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Orion Adrian — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:23:44 GMT

While I'm glad you made this easier to find (I actually knew about it and realized how hard it was to find), I'm not loving the idea of it doing the cropping automatically. This should be part of the finishing process. I will often (and I know other heavy PowerPoint users who do the same) who will change the crop of a picture after they've saved it. Sometimes it will go through multiple revisions and sometimes the person changing the crop will not be the person with the original image. So I'm thinking that this should be part of the finishing menu.