Emergency! Powerpoint To Disk

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adrienne.mignardi

Hello! I am pressed for time to put a powerpoint onto a disk for
school. I am using a Mac but the laptop at school is a windows (and
I'm sure its an older version of PP). So how do I copy the
presentation onto a disk and what kind of disc do I need? Basically I
just need step by step instructions (or links to them). My biggest
concern really is what kind of disk I need because I end up getting
the wrong one and wasting money. Thank You for your help, I truly
appreciate it.
 
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CyberTaz

Hi Adrienne -

I'm afraid nobody can help very much because you don't provide enough
information - For example, it's impossible to tell you what type of disk you
need because you don't say what type of *drive* you have. You should have
some type of documentation that spells all that out for you or you can go to
the computer mfr's web site & look up the specs for your model. If you have
a USB Flash Drive you might be better off to use that instead.

Also, you make no mention of what you need to do with the file once you get
it to school. Do you need to continue editing the file or do you simply want
to display it as a finished product? If the former you should be able to
simply copy the file (NOT Save As) to your removable device once you get the
answers to the above question. For the latter case you may want to use the
Save As command in PPt to create a PPt Movie, PPt Package or PPt Show -
which depends on a number of variables about which we know nothing in your
specific situation. As a basic "guess" I would think PPt Show would be the
most likely choice. Save to your hard drive then copy to the other media
from an OS X Finder window as above.

And when you get to where you need to go, copy the file to that system's
hard drive - don't open it from the removable media (especially if you
intend to edit the file).

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac




On 10/31/07 10:37 PM, in article
[email protected],

Hello! I am pressed for time to put a powerpoint onto a disk for
school. I am using a Mac but the laptop at school is a windows (and
I'm sure its an older version of PP). So how do I copy the
presentation onto a disk and what kind of disc do I need? Basically I
just need step by step instructions (or links to them). My biggest
concern really is what kind of disk I need because I end up getting
the wrong one and wasting money. Thank You for your help, I truly
appreciate it.
 
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TAJ Simmons

Adrienne,

What Bob said... that pretty much covers it all.

Any USB drive would most certainly work on both a mac or pc.

TAJ
 
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adrienne.mignardi

Sorry

Well I have a Mac OS X v 10.4, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (I hope this is
what you need). The computer at the school is a Windows but I'm not
sure what version...Im guessing XP.
All I need to do is present the powerpoint. I have a CD R and I just
need to know how to copy the presentation onto it.
 
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TAJ Simmons

Somewhere on your MAC will be some kind of software to write/burn CD-Rs.

Run the software - locate your presentation file. Burn/Write the CD.

Then start powerpoint and try and OPEN the file from the CD to prove it's
really there and it opens.

cheers
TAJ
 
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