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When you’ve saved a Powerpoint package to the ‘Presentation CD’ folder you can copy it to anywhere you wish. We don’t know why Microsoft persists with the ‘CD’ label when even their own staff rarely burn a presentation to CD anymore. These days it’s far more likely that you’ll save it to a USB ‘key’ than any kind of silver disk.

Beyond the CDĭespite the name, you do NOT have to write the Powerpoint presentation package to a CD. Make sure you retain the same folder structure with the files in the ‘Presentation CD’ folder (ie autorun.inf, pptview.exe etc) in the root folder of the CD. Once saved you can burn the package to any CD/DVD. In Powerpoint 2003 you’ll find ‘Package for CD’ under the File menu, whereas in Powerpoint 2007 it’s under the Office button (top left) and ‘Publish’. It’s gone under various names like ‘Pack n Go’ or ‘Package for CD’. Usually that’s difficult which is where the next option comes in … Package for CD / Pack n Goįor a long time, Powerpoint has had a way to bundle a presentation up for use elsewhere. Audio files have a small size limit for embedding so most likely they’ll also be linked. You need to ensure those external files are also copied and in the same locations as they are on the production machine. Some files – notably movies are never embedded. This method works fine as long as all the images and sounds are embedded (along with the fonts).
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If the display computer is a Macintosh then you must have Office for Mac installed on it since Microsoft (unsurprisingly) hasn’t made a Powerpoint viewer for the Mac.
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The display computer might not have the software installed or it’s not the latest version (which can handle Powerpoint 2007 files). Tip: include a copy of the Powerpoint viewer on the USB key if you can, just in case you need it. For display the ‘Embed characters in use only’ is sufficient however if you think you might tweak your slides at the last minute choose ‘Embed all characters’ Do that by going to Tools | Options | Save and choosing ‘Embed TrueType fonts’. Make sure that your presentation is saved with all the fonts installed, otherwise the slides might not look the way you expect. These days a USB ‘key’ is the easiest way to do that though you can email it, use a network share etc.

ppt files but not the newer Powerpoint 2007 formats).Īll you need to do is copy the presentation file (PPT/PPTX) to the computer that you want to display it from. (for earlier versions of Windows like Windows 2000 SP3, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME and Windows XP you can download the Powerpoint 2003 viewer which will display. It will run on any Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 or Vista computer and can display any PPT or PPTX file. The latest free Powerpoint viewer is available here, a 25MB download Most commonly, you need to put your Powerpoint files on a different computer for your speech or presentation.
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While Google’s answer to Powerpoint will (presumably) come later this year there are ways to make your presentation portable and even online right now.

Check out the first part of the series ‘ Using Google Docs & Spreadsheets to extend Microsoft Office‘. Over in our sister publication, Office Watch, we’re talking about using Google’s services as a low-cost extension of Office to give you features either not available in MS Office or only possible for more money. We customers can make use of the Microsoft vs Google battle. Later this year we can expect an online presentation system (a la Powerpoint) to join Google Docs and Spreadsheets as rivals to Microsoft Office.
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How to move your Powerpoint presentation to another computer to display.Īnother move by Google into Microsoft Office territory was recently announced with their purchase of Tonic.
