If you're using a Web browser (like Edge or Chrome) to fill out your worksheets, that may be the problem. It's pretty common for your work to be lost. Instead, try one of these options:
•Download the worksheet to your computer and open it with a dedicated PDF program such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. •Print it, fill it out by hand, and submit photos of it. •Take a screenshot of each page after finishing it and submit those instead of the PDF.
As with any worksheet, ALWAYS open the document back up again after saving and closing it to make sure your work is still there before you submit it. Also be careful to make sure you upload the correct document.
Compressing PowerPoint presentations
If you're trying to submit a PowerPoint presentation and are encountering the error of your file being too large, there is a handy way to fix that problem built right in to PowerPoint. It has a 'Compress Pictures' tool you can use to significantly reduce your presentation's file size.
On Windows, you can find it on the Format Picture tab.
On Mac, go to File: Compress Pictures.
In the dialog box, set the 'target output' to the lowest ppi possible (email, 96 ppi).
Make sure "Delete cropped areas" is selected.
Then save your presentation.
If you aren't using PowerPoint, you can still make your presentations smaller, but it might take a little more work. Before importing a photo into your presentation, use an image manipulation program of your choice to make the picture smaller.
First, crop the photo to just the part you want to show up in the presentation. Presentation software lets you crop your photos, but it doesn't actually delete the areas you crop out, it just hides them, so the size of the photos isn't changed. This is why it's better to crop them in an image manipulation program first.
Usually you'll want your photo to be less than 2,000 pixels along its longest edge if it's a full-page photo. Smaller photos on the page can be made a lot smaller.
Save the photo as a JPEG file at around 60-70% quality.
Ideally each picture will only be a couple hundred kilobytes or smaller before you import it into your presentation.
Hopefully this helps you get your presentation slimmed down enough to submit. If these tricks don't work, you may have elements in your presentation (like embedded videos) that may be causing the large file size. If that's the case, consider putting a link to the video in (if it's from an online source) instead of embedding it.