Thanks for getting back to us with your success.

 Thanks guys, I managed to reduce it by a liitle. Appreciate it alot.

 "Michael Koerner" wrote:

 > In conjunction to what TAJ said, if you have the full version of Acrobat, you have the option to reduce the filesize which is found under Document >Reduce Filesize
 >
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 >   Michael Koerner
 > MS MVP - PowerPoint
 >
 >
 >   "TAJ Simmons" <presentations@NOMORESPAMawesomebackgrounds.com> wrote in message news:%230Py4DuGIHA.1316@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
 >   Daniel,
 >
 >   When you convert to PDF, are they any options/properties that you can change
 >   in your PDF maker software. You need to find something that mentions
 >   'resolution/quality' of the images. Then set it to a lower setting.
 >
 >   That would be my first point of call.
 >
 >   Cheers
 >   TAJ Simmons
 >
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 >
 >   "Daniel" <Daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
 >   news:349DF8D0-7E88-4344-BD01-3D1E71DB3962@microsoft.com...
 >   >I have a colleague who is trying to convert his Powerpoint file to PDF
 >   >file,
 >   > but when he converts it, instead of the file size getting smaller, it gets
 >   > bigger.
 >   >
 >   > This file size is only 1.23mb in PPT format, but after converting to PDF
 >   > format, it becomes 2.5mb. There are photos in this Powerpoint
 >   > presentation.
 >   >
 >   > Is there any software or any ways to convert this Powerpoint presentation
 >   > to
 >   > PDF format in a size smaller than the original Powerpoint format
 >   >
 >
 >