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Reducing the Size of Media Files
Including large sound and movie les in a Numbers spreadsheet can make the entire
document le size very large. If youre using only a portion of the sound or movie le
in your spreadsheet, you can remove the unused portions of the audio or video le to
make the Numbers le smaller. You can choose either to reduce the size of individual
media les or to reduce the size of all the media les in the document that are not
being used in full.
Before you reduce the movie or audio les, you must save them as part of your
document. Choose File > Save, click Advanced Options, make sure that “Copy audio
and movies into document is selected, and then click Save. For more details about
saving spreadsheets, see “Saving a Spreadsheet” on page 32.
Here are ways to reduce the le size of your spreadsheet:
To reduce the size of an individual media le in your document, select a sound or m
movie le for which you have set the Start and Stop sliders to exclude some part of
the le, and then choose Format > Image > Reduce Media File Size.
To reduce the size of all the media les in your document, make sure no sound, movie, m
or image le is selected, and then choose File > Reduce File Size.
After reducing the size of your sound or video le, you won’t be able to restore the le
to its original length or listen to or view the parts that you have excluded. To restore
the entire le, you must add the le again.
Some types of movie les may not be reducible in this way.
To learn about reducing the size of image les, see Reducing Image File Sizes” on
page 198.
Manipulating, Arranging, and Changing the Look of Objects
In general, the way you select, arrange, and manipulate objects in Numbers works the
same, whether youre working with images, shapes, movies, tables, chart elements, or
text boxes. For most objects, you use the same controls to resize and reorient them, as
well as to add shadows, reections, border styles (stroke), ll color or image, and more.
To learn how to Go to
Select one or more objects so you can edit them “Selecting Objects” on page 213
Copy or duplicate an object “Copying or Duplicating Objects” on page 213
Remove an object “Deleting Objects” on page 214
212 Chapter 9 Working with Shapes, Graphics, and Other Objects