Sometimes tools that offer you the opportunity to compress MS Office files change the file extension or format posing problems when you want to use them later.

FILEminimizer Office (formerly known as PPTminimizer) on the other hand lets you have the best of both worlds by compressing Powerpoint, Word and Excel files while preserving their native format and file extension. The developers claim that FILEminimizer Office reduces the size of PowerPoint, Word and Excel files by up to 98% using an intelligent compression technique which compresses pictures and embedded objects. The result is that the optimized files are much smaller, safer and ideal for sharing and sending via email.

You have three main action across the top of the man interface - Optimize, Pack & Go and Search Files. The first option simply reduces the size of the files to their minimum, the second does the same but also allows you to send them by e-mail directly and configure other e-mail related options. Searching simply allows you to search files that you've optimized. Using it is incredibly easy and it processes files very quickly. A new file is always created with "Fileminimizer" denoted after the filename so that your original is left untouched. Note that you can choose whether to apply strong, medium or low compression. Recipients can open the documents as normal without needing to install FILEminimizer Office.

If you're tired of applications that don't allow you to compress and share Office documents easily, then Fileminimizer Office will come as a nice surprise.