how to do a powerpoint presentation?

[Marty]

I made a ppt file for my wife.
She wants me to copy it to disk to take to work to present on the big
screen.
Do I just copy the ppt file to a cd and away she goes or is there something
else I need to do so she can do a presentation? There's no sound associated
with the file, just slides with words.
Apparently work has a projector, a computer, and a viewing screen, so she
just needs to take something on a cd to work.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Marty;

Your wife will have to have at her work place either the PowerPoint viewer of
the full version of PowerPoint installed on her computer at work. Other than
that all that is required is the PowerPoint presentation. The free PowerPoint
viewer can be downloaded from here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...27-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&DisplayLang=en

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I made a ppt file for my wife.
She wants me to copy it to disk to take to work to present on the big
screen.
Do I just copy the ppt file to a cd and away she goes or is there something
else I need to do so she can do a presentation? There's no sound associated
with the file, just slides with words.
Apparently work has a projector, a computer, and a viewing screen, so she
just needs to take something on a cd to work.

 

[Sonia]

The computer at work must have either PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer
installed. What version of PowerPoint is your wife using? With that
information I can recommend which version of PowerPoint or the Viewer is needed
at work.

If you are certain that there are no linked files such as sound, video, PDF,
etc., you can just copy the PowerPoint file to the CD. If the Viewer will be
needed at work, it would be good to include it on the CD so that it can be
installed on the work computer. Again, which Viewer to include depends on which
version of PowerPoint she is using.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Marty]

I believe the full powerpoint program is on the computer used for
presentations.

 

[Marty]

The file was prepared with PPT 2003.

The computer at work must have either PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer
installed. What version of PowerPoint is your wife using? With that
information I can recommend which version of PowerPoint or the Viewer is
needed at work.

If you are certain that there are no linked files such as sound, video,
PDF, etc., you can just copy the PowerPoint file to the CD. If the Viewer
will be needed at work, it would be good to include it on the CD so that
it can be installed on the work computer. Again, which Viewer to include
depends on which version of PowerPoint she is using.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Michael Koerner]

As long as the version of PowerPoint on the is the same as the version in which
you created the presentation then everything should work out just fine. If it is
an earlier version of PowerPoint, then any of the special effects that appear in
2003 will not appear in earlier versions of PowerPoint. If your not sure, then
you can turn of the newer features when you create your presentation by clicking
on Tools, Options, Edit, and disable the newer features.

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I believe the full powerpoint program is on the computer used for
presentations.

 

[Echo S]

Then just to be on the safe side, you might want to download the PPT 2003
Viewer and copy that EXE file to the CD as well.

See, PPT 97 and 2000 won't show any of the new animations or transitions
available in PPT 2002 and 2003. If your wife hasn't used those, then no
problem -- PPT 97/2000 will run her presentation just fine.* If she has used
new animations and transitions--but her office is using PPT 97 or 2000--she
can install and run her presentation using the PPT 2003 Viewer so the
animations and transitions will work as she intended them to.

You can make her an autorun CD if you prefer. Download and install the PPT
2003 Viewer on your system, then in PPT use File/Package for CD. Choose
"package to folder" and then copy the contents of that folder onto your CD.
(The *contents* of the folder, not the folder itself. You want the files to
be "loose" on the CD.)

You can get the free PPT 2003 Viewer here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-
90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en

*Make sure she doesn't put a password on the presentation if there's any
chance she'll need to open the file in PPT 97 or 2000.