Powerpoint: Compress and Optimize Presentations (ppt) to Decrease Size

One of my biggest beefs with MS products is the enormous size of the files saved in thier formats, particularly presentations. Because of the size, I must e-mail my presentations to my gmail account (we can't e-mail them to our school accounts because of the file size), and then download them back to my laptop. Here's a nice reminder from Tech-Recipes about how to compress Powerpoint presentations.

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