Convert placed vector to jpg in INdd file?

I am trying to shrink the file size of an InDesign file. I havecut & pasted very detailed and complicated vector graphics into the file from illustrator. I think this is making the file bigger than it needs to be. Is there a way to convert those pasted vector images to a smaller type of file within InDesign?

Barberhaus,
This is (I think) a summary of what the others have suggested
1. Text on top most layer, troublesome graphics on a layer below. Hide text layer, this is what Kathlene suggested
2. Each page, select all, Isolate Blending in Effects panel. This is enough to introduce transparency and should not change content (select all cancels out the isolation)
3. Create a transparency flattener. You can actually base it on High Res or perhaps Medium. Slide balance all the way to the left (raster) as others suggested.
4. Output a PDF, Acrobat 4 compatibility, using the new flattener preset.
5. Hide the graphics layer and create a new layer
6. Window: Automation: Scripts, run "Place Multi Page PDF" Select the PDF you just output, and the destination is the current document
7. Now output another PDF for the web output. This one should be pretty small. Also no need for Acrobat 4 compatibility for this PDF which should also help reduce file size along with downsampling.
I don't think this process would take too long, and it does not require anything other than InDesign. It should work but try it on a copy. Steps 1 and 4 would be the most time consuming steps but at least this solution is global (more or less)

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I am working with CS6 on a Windows 7 machine and I frequently place .indd files into other indd. files.
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