Power Point® All?in?One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 5. Alternative Ways to Distribute Presentations

In This Chapter

• Getting your presentation in shape before you send it off

• Sending a presentation over the Internet without leaving PowerPoint

• Copying a presentation and the PowerPoint Viewer to a CD

• Distributing a presentation to people who don't have PowerPoint

• Saving a presentation as a Web page for viewing in a Web browser

There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to deliver a presentation. If you can't be there in person, you can still deliver your presentation with the techniques outlined in this chapter. It explains how to send a presentation by e‐mail, copy it to a CD, and save it as a Web page so that it can be viewed over the Internet. You also find out how people who don't have PowerPoint can view your presentation with a software program called the PowerPoint Viewer.

By the way, you can also distribute a PowerPoint presentation the old‐fashioned way — by printing it and handing out the pages. Book VI, Chapter 2 explains how to print PowerPoint presentations.

Putting On the Finishing Touches

Before you send a PowerPoint presentation into the world to make friends, consider putting the finishing touches on your presentation:

• Examine the document properties: As Book I, Chapter 2 explains, document properties can help you organize presentations, search for presentations on your computer, and record what presentations are about. Perhaps, however, the comments you wrote in the document properties aren't ...