screenshot showing where to find the Tag Large Media with Comments tool in BrightSlide
Step 2 – Compress large media. You can see how to do that here: How to compress PowerPoint presentations and reduce picture file size. There are tools available to help you compress files quickly and easily that might be worth investing in if this is a day-to-day nuisance for you, for example NXPowerLite. You can check out our review of NXPowerLite to learn more.
Step 3 – Check your templates! Having a really phone numbers in ukraine big template or multiple templates in your deck can make the file bloated and laggy even if your slide content is light and compressed. It’s easy to fix. To check what’s going on beneath the hood, go to View, Slide Master and see what templates are included in the file. You can also right click on a slide in the slide sorter and look at the layout options. Make sure all your slides are on the right template and delete those you don’t need. You can assign layouts en masse using BrightSlide’s Assign Layouts tool (in the File & Master section). To learn more about templates and masters check out this blog post: How to create PowerPoint templates that work.
I’ll be the first to admit that BrightSlide’s multi-painter tool can feel a bit… intimidating. There’s a big old drop down menu with a bunch of options on it and even I wasn’t sure what all of them did! This tool is actually very powerful and will save you so much time and effort. Once you get to grips with it you won’t look back. Thankfully BrightCarbon’s BrightSlide geniuses have put together a tutorial video to walk you through the tool’s functionality. Start at about 1.10! It’s 2 minutes of time that could just change your (presentation-related) life.
The multi-painter can paint size, format, position, adjustments and animation in one click. It’s sticky by default which means you can copy properties across slides and across different presentations. So, you can make all your footnotes the same size, position, and formatting in every deck with just one click per slide – a dream! (And this from a woman who once spent days adjusting footnotes across hundreds of slides – days!).