Share Sign PPT Mac

Share Sign PPT Mac

as you start creating your own presentations in PowerPoint or even opening up existing presentations and making changes to them you're going to need to know how to save those changes properly there are a number of save options built into PowerPoint and keep in mind that this latest version 2008 for the Mac does save your presentation using a new file format we have a new extension pptx that's not readable by previous versions of PowerPoint so if you're going to be sharing your presentations it's important to be compatible so we're going to talk all about that in this lesson you can see I'm still working with my ECP to file that we opened up in the previous lesson and if you're jumping to this lesson have the exercise files you can go to the lesson2 folder to open this up we did some rearranging and I've just rearranged the last two slides since the last lesson so I've got my slides in the right order I made a number of changes now it's time for me to actually save those changes so we can go up to the Save button clicking the Save button is just going to update the current file in other words it's going to keep the same name ECP - it's going to keep the same format pptx and it's going to remain stored in the same location so it's really more of an update button than it is a Save button however if you're creating a brand-new PowerPoint presentation and you click the Save button the save as dialog box will open up where you can give it a name choose a location choose a format and so on so instead of just clicking the Save button to update our changes and clicking it will do exactly that let's check out the save as dialog now we'll go up to the file menu and notice that just below save which by the way has a keyboard shortcut of command s so as you're working away on your slides and you're typing away for example you might want to just hit command s every now and then to update those changes but right below that shift command S or save as here on the file menu will open up that dialog box now just before we click that notice that we have some shortcuts as well we can save our PowerPoint presentations as pictures if I've got nine slides in my presentation using save as pictures we'll save nine individual images that can be opened by any application pretty much that opens up a graphical image I can even save this as a movie a QuickTime movie so an extension of dot MOV will be added and instead of a PowerPoint presentation it becomes a little movie that plays from slide to slide well check that out later because you'll want to have slide timings in there and maybe special effects for transitions...