Sonya,
Thanks you and I'm always glad to help you. I'll take a kiss from here as long as I don't have an angry husband on my back, that's all I need! lol
If you are on a Windows machine simply right click on it and click on Send To and then Compressed Folder. If you're on a Mac right click and click on Compress.
I have the forum to accept .ppt files but it apparently does not like that.