PowerPoint For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition

Chapter 19

Collaborating on Presentations

IN THIS CHAPTER

Considering the joys of collaboration

Getting your mind around OneDrive

Collaborating with Teams

Editing a presentation while other people are editing it too

Adding comments to a presentation

“Works well with others” is more than standard fare for rookie résumés. It’s also one of the PowerPoint mantras. Many presentations are designed not by and for a single presenter, but by a team of presenters. Fortunately, PowerPoint includes several simple features that let a team of people collaborate to create a presentation. This chapter shows you how to use those features.

Understanding Collaboration

Most dictionaries define the word collaborate something like this:

To work cooperatively together to produce an outcome or result. The three collaborated on a novel.

Few of us would consider our PowerPoint presentations to be literary works, and we often (unfortunately) find that working together with other people is different from ...