Publisher very slow.....

Wendy was very recently heard to
utter:
Ok, so here is what I did... I deleted the four pictures in
Publisher, then I cropped the four pictures in another program and
saved them as four individual pictures. Then I put the four pictures
back in my Publisher file and now the size is only 1668kb. Publisher
could not handle a big picture file, copied four times and then
cropped down to four pictures.

That's because Publisher stores a full-resolution copy of each copied image,
and does not delete the cropped data. Cropping in an image program removes
all the extraneous image data, reducing the size of the file that Publisher
must work with when redrawing.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Hi - I am working with Publisher 03 now on a calendar. The calendar
orginiated on 2000 and when it transfer, all images got very large. Now I am
having a hard time resizing things. It's taking forever to change just the
font. I have go to pictures to do a fast resize but it hasn't made a
difference. HELP??

"Wendy" wrote:

I have tried to look through other posts and did what people suggested: turn
down acceleration and update video driver. I have Publisher 2002 SP3. Is
there any updates that can help me? The file has a small advertisment I made
that is 2x2.58 inches with 4 pictures that are all cropped and some text
boxes... It takes a long time to load and if I try to move something or
select something it takes what seems like a minute before I can work with it.
Any ideas???

Publisher 2000 did not use compression. This article has some workarounds.
Large Publisher 2000 publication opens slowly in later versions of Publisher
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289010/en-us

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
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"Sara" wrote in message
...
Hi - I am working with Publisher 03 now on a calendar. The calendar
orginiated on 2000 and when it transfer, all images got very large. Now I am
having a hard time resizing things. It's taking forever to change just the
font. I have go to pictures to do a fast resize but it hasn't made a
difference. HELP??

"Wendy" wrote:

I have tried to look through other posts and did what people suggested: turn
down acceleration and update video driver. I have Publisher 2002 SP3. Is
there any updates that can help me? The file has a small advertisment I made
that is 2x2.58 inches with 4 pictures that are all cropped and some text
boxes... It takes a long time to load and if I try to move something or
select something it takes what seems like a minute before I can work with it.
Any ideas???