Untick maintain aspect ratio and put in the dimensions you need and click ‘Ok’.

This will bring up the Resize and Skew pop-up.

Open Paint – Start → Programmes → Accessories → Paint.

However, it does provide a simple and quick way of resizing images. Hope this helps you for compression of images based on your needs.Microsoft Paint is a very basic picture editing program, so it has quite limited functionality. Step: Important step :) - save the changes.Īfter compression process you can see the size of the image has reduced to ~64 KB. You can see the estimated size before and after compression along with some description for option selected. In my case I have selected Compress for: Documents and press OK.

Step: Next it will show you option to compress for Document or Web pages or Email messages.Įach of this option will compress size of the image (with little loss in quality) based on option selected. Step: In edit picture dialog on right select > Compress Pictures Step: Once the image is open in Microsoft Office Picture Manager > click on Edit Picture Step: Next you need to right click on the image you want to compress and under Open With select Microsoft Office 2010 Then click Install Now to finish the installation. You can see this feature as option under Microsoft Office > Office Tools > Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

Step: On this step only select Microsoft Office Picture Manager from list. Step: Accept license agreement and click on Continue. While installing Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 you need to only select Microsoft Office Picture Manager to install.

You can download this as part of Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010.Īs an example I have a minions-party.jpg file which around 1.35 MB on disk. For some reason this program is been discontinued and is not part of later versions of Office packages. This program / feature is part of Microsoft Office 2010 and prior editions. The way to compress or reduce size of an image is using Microsoft Office Picture Manager. The online form filling site only allowed maximum 900 KB of file size to be uploaded. We got it scanned but the scans where big in size. As part of this form filling process, we had to upload scanned copies of previous study's merit sheet. Recently one of my family member ran into trouble when trying to fill an admission form online.

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