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Create portable PowerPoint presentations

Discover how to convert your PowerPoint documents so they can be played on any PC.

PowerPoint is designed to produce presentations to show to other people, whether for personal or professional reasons. With this in mind, the chances are that you’re bringing the presentation to the people rather than expecting them to show up at your desk or home. If you have a laptop you could take it with you, but why not create a version of your PowerPoint presentation that will play on any Windows PC with a CD drive attached to it?

When your presentation’s complete and working properly, you can package it in such a way that it contains all of the files you need to run it on any compatible PC. Until the release of PowerPoint 2003 the feature was called ‘Pack and Go’. In PowerPoint 2003 it’s now called ‘Package for CD’ and they work in virtually the same way. Don’t be fooled by PowerPoint 2003’s reference to CD – you can choose to copy your package to a folder for distributing by means such as USB flash disk.

How it works

To run a PowerPoint presentation on any PC you need to make sure it has all the required elements bundled together, which is the job that Pack and Go performs. First there’s the PowerPoint file itself. While embedded files are already part of the PowerPoint file, linked files aren’t, so Pack and Go ensures these are bundled up too. Finally, any fonts you use can also be included with the package, in case they’re not present on the PC that runs the presentation.

Download the viewer

The final element you need is the PowerPoint Viewer, which is packaged by default in all versions of PowerPoint except PowerPoint 2002 (Office XP). Don’t bother clicking the ‘Download the Viewer’ button in the PowerPoint 2002 wizard – it points to a non-existent link as Microsoft has withdrawn all but the latest version of PowerPoint Viewer.

Unfortunately, this latest version won’t work properly with the Pack and Go Wizard in PowerPoint 2002, so we ferreted around the Internet until we found a site that hosted the older version. If you browse to www.iowatestinglabs.com/PowerPointViewer.htm you’ll be able to get hold of PPView97.exe. Once you’ve downloaded it, install it on your PC and the viewer option will be available the next time you run the wizard.

Package your presentation

All that’s left to do is create your presentation! Once that’s ready, check the box for some ideas on how to control it. You should follow one of the two walkthroughs depending on your version of PowerPoint.

PowerPoint 2003 users get many more options than those running previous versions of the software. You can attach more than one presentation to your package and then control how the PowerPoint Viewer handles the files. You can also password-protect your presentation files to prevent people from opening and/or modifying the presentations in their own version of PowerPoint.

Despite the feature name, Package to CD, you can only burn directly to CD if you’re running Windows XP as it makes use of XP’s CD-burning wizard. Windows 2000 users should package the presentation to a folder and then burn it using their CD burning tool.

The same is true in earlier versions of PowerPoint – just package up your presentation to a folder and burn it to CD manually if you so wish. CD is the best medium to use for your packaged presentation, because 99 per cent of all PCs have a CD-ROM drive. It’s also cheap to produce, so makes it easy to distribute your package if necessary.

Playback

It’s a good idea to test your presentation before taking it out on to the open road for public consumption. If you’ve burned it to CD, try running it on a variety of different PCs to see how it performs, including those that you know don’t have the fonts or images you used in the original presentation.

It makes sense to work your way through the entire presentation to make sure transitions work as expected and that the controls have been set correctly. If necessary, tweak your settings before generating another packaged presentation.

Pack up and go (PowerPoint 2002 and earlier)

1. Select File > Pack and Go in your complete presentation. Click Next at the first screen. If your presentation is already open, tick Active presentation. Otherwise tick Other presentation – click Browse to locate it. Click Next.

2. Choose where to save the file. The floppy drive is selected by default, but it’s unlikely your presentation will fit. Pick Choose Destination, click Browse and locate where you wish to save. Click Select followed by Next.

3. The next screen lets you embed files into the presentation. Make sure both options (linked files and TrueType fonts) are ticked before clicking Next. Opt to include the PowerPoint viewer. Click Next, followed by Finish.

Package for CD (PowerPoint 2003)

1. Prepare your presentation or presentations and choose File > Package for CD. By default, the current presentation will be pre-selected. Click Add Files... to attach additional presentations to the package. Once done, alter the running order using the arrows.

2. Click Options. You have four options for how PowerPoint Viewer handles the presentation(s). Play them all in order, play the first only, give the user a choice or don’t run automatically at all. Make sure Linked files and Embedded TrueType Fonts are both ticked.

3. Click OK to return to the main screen. If you’re burning directly to CD (Windows XP only) give your presentation a name, insert a disc and click Copy to CD. Otherwise, click Copy to Folder, choose a location to copy the presentation to and click Close to finish.

Nick Peers

Interactive or self-running?

PowerPoint assumes your presentation is interactive by default. That’s fine if you’re in the room to control it because the slides move at exactly the pace you dictate. However, what if you’re not present? The solution is to set up a self-running presentation. That doesn’t necessarily mean that everything runs automatically from the point the CD is inserted (although it can do), but it does enable you to make usability as simple as possible.

The first thing to consider is whether you want the slides to switch automatically after a set period. You can set individual timings and effects for each slide – do so by right-clicking each slide and choosing Slide Transition to bring up the Slide Transition task pane. If you want universal settings, just click Apply to All.

If you want your audience to control the presentation, help them by using hyperlinks and Action Buttons, so that navigation forward, backwards, to the end and to the beginning of the presentation is as clear as possible. You may also wish to ensure the presentation takes up the whole screen when it’s run. Again, the Slide Show menu is the place to look: simply select Set up Show and choose the kiosk option to make sure it does so.

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