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Susienak - 06 Mar 2008 16:36 GMT

I have Powerpoint 2007 and want to know how to email a Powerpoint slide
presentation to a large group of people, some of whom do not have Powerpoint.
In older versions I had to send links on how to download to view. Is this any
easier to do in this new version or does the recipient still have to download
something? Daoes saving as a pps solve this or do I still have to do
something else?

Thanks,

Susienak

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John Wilson - 06 Mar 2008 16:54 GMT

Saving as a pps won't do it they will still need the viewer I'm afraid. If
you save as pps or ppt though they will be able to use the 2003 viewer which
is a much smaller download.

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> I have Powerpoint 2007 and want to know how to email a Powerpoint slide
> presentation to a large group of people, some of whom do not have Powerpoint.
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>
> Susienak

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Ute Simon - 06 Mar 2008 20:35 GMT

>I have Powerpoint 2007 and want to know how to email a Powerpoint slide
> presentation to a large group of people, some of whom do not have
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> something? Daoes saving as a pps solve this or do I still have to do
> something else?

If there are no animations on your slides, you can save the presentation as
a PDF file. Office 2007 has a built-in PDF converter. They will of course
need the Adobe Reader to view that. But that program should be installed on
98% of all computers (at least Adobe says so ...).

Regarding the PowerPoint Viewer: I am sure, most people who are interested
in presentations will already have the PowerPoint Viewer installed. But the
Viewer 2003 is still more frequent than the Viewer 2007 - so downsaving to
97-2003 format might be a good idea, anyway.

Best regards,
Ute

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Michael Koerner - 07 Mar 2008 03:12 GMT

In addition to what Ute has already mentioned, you might take it one step further and create an exe file. See here. http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/pp2003/ppt2exe.html

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>I have Powerpoint 2007 and want to know how to email a Powerpoint slide
> presentation to a large group of people, some of whom do not have
> Powerpoint.
> In older versions I had to send links on how to download to view. Is this
> any
> easier to do in this new version or does the recipient still have to
> download
> something? Daoes saving as a pps solve this or do I still have to do
> something else?

If there are no animations on your slides, you can save the presentation as
a PDF file. Office 2007 has a built-in PDF converter. They will of course
need the Adobe Reader to view that. But that program should be installed on
98% of all computers (at least Adobe says so ...).

Regarding the PowerPoint Viewer: I am sure, most people who are interested
in presentations will already have the PowerPoint Viewer installed. But the
Viewer 2003 is still more frequent than the Viewer 2007 - so downsaving to
97-2003 format might be a good idea, anyway.

Best regards,
Ute

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Ute Simon
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team und PowerPoint-User-Team
Schon gesehen? www.ppt-user.de/blogger und www.ppt-tv.de

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Bubba@home.net - 07 Mar 2008 02:05 GMT

Why not save as a Web page, putting all of the resources in one folder, then save as an Internet Explorer .mht file ?
Then anyone with a browser can open it.

Just my 2 cents worth...

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Alex Bruster - 11 Mar 2008 10:36 GMT

On Mar 6, 8:36 am, Susienak <Susie...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

> I have Powerpoint 2007 and want to know how to email a Powerpoint slide
> presentation to a large group of people, some of whom do not have Powerpoint.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Susienak

There are many software can make the process easier, I have done this
before ,I play it on DVD, I used an all-in-one PowerPoint to video
converter, you can also have a try from the website:
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com
Hope it will help you!

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Alex Bruster - 11 Mar 2008 10:38 GMT

There are many software can make the process easier, I have done this
before ,but the difference is that I play it on DVD, I used an all-in-
one PowerPoint to video converter, you can also have a try from the
website:
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com
Hope it will help you!

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