NWR: Any ideas?

mwhitson14

I'm trying to e-mail myself a large powerpoint document so that I can print it off on my work computer, but since it's a pretty big sucker (75 slides, Biome Jeopardy, come one down! ) gmail and yahoo mail keep failing to attach it (it's on a jump drive, my work computers are old as the hills and don't have a connection for a jump drive).Is there any way to compress it somehow, just to get it emailed to myself? We don't have a kinko's or anything like that around here, or I'd just take it there to get printed.  Any ideas?

betrothed123

Can you ZIP it?

bbyckes

Can you break it into two documents and email them separately?

squirrly

winRAR is a free zip program.  It will create zip files or RAR files.  I prefer RAR, but then you'd have to download that software on your work computer too.  Or, you could split it into multiple PPT files. 

ring_pop

[url]http://www.yousendit.com[/url]

lauralaur

Ditto cacoffer you can copy and paste the slides from one into the other to put it back together later.

tlv204

If your work computers can hook up to printers, you should be able to use a jump drive. It's the same USB port. Unless it's so old it has those huge things with screws in them for the printer. I'm not much help. Gmail in theory should be able to attach it, there's loads of storage space, but I had the same issue with my huge grad school portfolio a few years ago. I ended up having to break it up into chunks to email. Could that work? Multiple smaller slide shows?

mwhitson14

I'm testing out ring's website now, seems to be the easiest. I don't know how to zip it, so if that doesn't work I'll try to figure that out next.

mwhitson14

Unless it's so old it has those huge things with screws in them for the printer.You got it! :D45% sent with ring's website, yay ring! More than just a mod!

ring_pop

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Audrey_03

If it's a powerpoint, did you redue the sizes of the images before you stuck them into PPT? I've seen doctor's presentations that were literally 2 or 3 gigs because they were using images right out of the MRI. Within Powerpoint, resizing the appearance of the images doesn't actually reduce the file size. If you were to open the images in photoshop or something though and "save for web" you can usually reduce the file size by 50 or 60%. Smaller image files means a leaner PPT and it might be enough to get you under the transfer restrictions so the file can be emailed.

sucrets4

Can you just save it on a CDrom?

mwhitson14

No images at all, it just questions and answers.Sucrets, my netbook doesn't have a CD drive.But ring's website worked, so thanks for the ideas ladies!

janedoe1113a

Woohoo!  Glad you got it to work!

mwhitson14

Me too navy! It's my senior portfolio, due tomorrow! It's the next to last thing to get in, I'm working on the last one now.

desireedp

Can you upload them to docs.google.comAnd then access that site from work to print them off? Uploading them to that has always worked faster for me than trying to attach them to an email.