Saving a Portable PowerPoint Presentation

  

 Portable PowerPoint Presentations: 

 If you will be presenting on a different computer than the one on which it was created or if you wish to distribute your PowerPoint Presentation, save your PowerPoint in a portable format. This will insure that images and video in your PowerPoint presentations are saved along with the PowerPoint file itself and will load properly when played on a different computer: 

 Office 2003 (Windows): 

 
 Open the PowerPoint file. 

 Click File > Package for CD... 

 Enter a name for the portable presentation and click the "Copy to Folder..." button. 

 Name the folder, select a location to save and click OK. 

 
 More details about saving portable PowerPoint presentations on PowerPoint 2003 are available  here . 

 Office 2007 (Windows): 

 
 Open the PowerPoint file. 

 Click the Office button at the top left of the PowerPoint 2007 screen. 

 Select Publish > Package for CD 

 Enter a name for the portable presentation and click the "Copy to Folder..." button. 

 Name the folder, select a location to save and click OK. 

 
 More details about saving portable PowerPoint presentations on PowerPoint 2007 are available  here . 

 Office 2010 (Windows): 

 
 Open the PowerPoint file. 

 Click the File tab. 

 Click Save & Send, then click Package Presentation for CD. 

 Click the Package for CD button. 

 Enter a name for the portable presentation and click the "Copy to Folder..." button. 

 Name the folder, select a location to save and click Select. 

 When prompted to include linked files, click yes. 

 
 More details about saving portable PowerPoint presentations on PowerPoint 2010 are available  here . 

 Office 2004 (Mac OS X): 

 
 Open the PowerPoint file. 

 Click File > Save As... and select "PowerPoint Package" from the "Format" drop-down menu. 

 The PowerPoint presentation will be saved to a folder with all image and video files. Copy the entire folder to your flash drive or burn it to a CD in order to view the PowerPoint presentation on a different computer. 

 
   

 Office 2008 (Mac OS X): 

 
 Open the PowerPoint file. 

 Click File > Save As... and select "PowerPoint Package" from the "Format" drop-down menu. NOTE: The PowerPoint presentation will be saved as a .pptx. If the version of Office you are using is not able to handle .pptx files, you can download and install a file format converter that will enable older versions of PowerPoint to open files created in the Office 2008. More information can be found  here . 
 

 The PowerPoint presentation will be saved to a folder with all image and video files. Copy the entire folder to your flash drive or burn it to a CD in order to view the PowerPoint presentation on a different computer. 

 
   

 Office 2011 & Newer (Windows & Mac OS X): 

 
 Since PowerPoint 2011, PowerPoint embeds images and video into the presentation by default when saving, making all recent PowerPoint presentations portable. There is no longer a need to specify saving the PowerPoint presentation in a portable format.

 
 On the File tab, select Save. 

 Do of the following:

 
 To save to your local drive, such as your laptop, a flash drive, CD or DVD drive, select Computer. 

 To save to a SharePoint Library, select SharePoint. 

 To save your presentation to a web location, see  Save and share a presentation to OneDrive . 

 
 

 Under Save As > Recent Folders, select Browse, pick a path and file folder, and then name the file. 

 Select Save.