How to Keep Fonts When Sharing PowerPoint Presentations

Different computers are likely to have different fonts, especially when the two computers have different languages, like one in English and one in Russian. In that case, if you send a PowerPoint presentation to another computer, the font differences may cause some formatting issues.

Question: How can I make my PowerPoint presentation set in stone so that other computers won’t alter the font even if they don’t recognize it?

Answer:

In fact you can keep the fonts when saving the PowerPoint file so that the fonts you used will come with you to anywhere.

Tips: Remember to embed only the fonts you used not all the fonts to reduce the file size.

Then let’s see how to embed fonts in PowerPoint 2010:

Step 1: Start by clicking “File” on the top-left and then click “Options” on the left pane.

Step 2: Once you have the PowerPoint Options window open, select the “Save” tab and then check the “Embed fonts in the file” checkbox.

Step 3: You then have the option to include all of the characters (increases the file size) or only the characters used (reduces the file size).

If you’re using PowerPoint 2007, you can click on the big round Office button at the top-left and then clicking on the “PowerPoint Options” button at the bottom of the menu that appears.

If you’re using PowerPoint 2003, you can access the “PowerPoint Options” from the “Tools” menu on the top menu bar (“Tools” → “Options” → “Save” tab).

Where and How to Upload Your PowerPoint Presentations for Sharing Online

Viewing PowerPoint or share PowerPoint presentations with others are always headache to PowerPoint users because of the format incompatibility. Here we would tell about websites that enables you to directly upload PowerPoint file and share with others online.

1. authorSTREAM

The authorSTREAM is a great PowerPoint sharing website which enables you to upload and share PowerPoint online by converting your PowerPoint to video automatically. The best part is that you can download the generated PowerPoint video and publish to other sharing websites like YouTube.

Sign up a free account and log in to authorSTREAM. Click “Upload” and choose a PowerPoint file.

You should wait for a while for the PowerPoint to video conversion and then it will be published on authorSTREAM.

Notes: You have to set the PowerPoint music, video, animations and transitions all to play automatically and the PowerPoint duration should be less than 100 minutes, or authorSTREAM will not convert your PowerPoint to video format.

2. SlideShare

Slideshare.net is a famous presentation sharing website. You can upload your presentations in PPT, PPS, PPTX or PPSX formats to SlideShare and they’re converted into shared media but all the animations, multimedia files in the presentation will be removed.

Sign up a free account and log in to SlideShare. Click “Upload” and choose a PowerPoint file, which should be less than 20MB.

3. Google Docs

Google Docs is an online application which allows you to create and share your work online. You don’t need to download and install anything on your computer, and you finish all your work in the browser like Firefox, IE. You can also upload your presentation made in Microsoft PowerPoint to Google Docs for further editing or sharing. As long as Internet connection is available, you can access your documents from anywhere. To use this service, you need to have a Gmail account first.

After you have created a Gmail account, sign in to Google Docs.

Now you should see a “Create” button and “Upload” icon on the left pane. Click the “Upload” icon, and choose “Files” from the drop-down menu. Then select the PowerPoint file you want to share and click “Open”.

Check the “Convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and drawings to the corresponding Google Docs format” box if you need to edit the PowerPoint in Google Docs. Click “Start Upload”.

Now you can edit the uploaded PowerPoint file in Google Docs, like reset images, background music, etc. Let’s skip that part and directly click “Share” to publish it online.

In the pop up dialog box, click “Change” in the “Private” line to choose who has access to the PowerPoint presentation.

Now you can choose who can view or edit the PowerPoint file.

Besides the uploading PowerPoint files to these 3 websites for sharing, you can also convert PowerPoint to video using Moyea PPTX to Video Converter so that you can directly upload the generated video to YouTube and many other video sharing websites.

How to Add a Border to a PowerPoint 2010 Slide

You can a border to a PowerPoint 2010 slide. When you are making a PowerPoint photo slideshow you will need this function. And your photos will surely look better with a customized border around the photos. There are two ways you can add a border to a slide in PowerPoint 2010.

Method 1: Add a Simple Border with Shapes.

You can add a simple border by drawing a rectangular and make a few settings such as reset the line style, thickness and color of the line.

1. Open your PowerPoint presentation, click the “Insert” tab →click “Shapes” in the “Illustrations” group →click “Rectangle”.

2. On the slide, drag your mouse and draw a rectangle that is almost near the edge of the slide.

3. Right click the rectangle, click “Format Shape” to make some settings as below:

• To change the border line color of the rectangle, in the “Format Shape” dialog box, click the “Line Color” tab, choose a color you want from the drop-down list of “Color” button.
  
  
  

• To change the border line style, wider or narrower or dashed, in the “Format Shape” dialog box, click the “Line Style” tab, and you can set the “Width”, “Compound Type”, “Dash Type”, etc. on the right side.
  
  
  

• To remove the background color of the rectangle, in the “Format Shape” dialog box, on the “Fill” tab, click “No fill”.
  

Method 2: Add a More Delicate Border Using Clip Art

Microsoft has created thousands of clip arts for you to download and use freely in your PowerPoint presentations.

1. Click the “Insert” tab →click “Clip Art” in the “Illustrations” group.

2. In the “Clip Art” task pane → click in the “Search for” box → type ”borders” → and then click “Go”.

3. In the results list, double-click the border that you like to apply it or just drag the border to the slide, and then resize, copy, paste, rotate, or flip the shape it to make it look the way you want.

Tips:

To ensure consistency of your PowerPoint presentation, you’d better use the same border on each slide.

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Full Specifications of Motorola Droid 4:

Tips: Viewing PowerPoint on the big screen Smartphones or tablets is no fresh news now, but PowerPoint formats like PPT, PPTX, PPS, and PPSX are not supported by Motorola Droid 4. In order to view PowerPoint on Motorola Droid 4 with portability and convenience, you can install Android apps like Quickoffice. However, to play PowerPoint on Droid 4 with all original effects like animations, transitions, music, video clips and format design, converting PPT, PPTX to video would be a better choice.

2 Methods to Create PowerPoint Slideshow from Facebook Photo Albums

Suppose you are going to make a photo slideshow as a gift to you boyfriend for the upcoming Valentine’s Day. But you cannot find the photos you need. Fortunately you have uploaded them to Facebook before. Facebook is a great place for you share your photos with others. Also it can serve as a free online disc to store your photos. As long as you have Internet connection, you can get your photos anywhere you want. You may ask how I can make a PowerPoint slideshow from the Facebook photo album. Here are two ways for you to choose and turn the Facebook photo album into PowerPoint slideshow.

Method 1: Download Facebook Photos to Computer

The first method most people would think of is to download the Facebook photo album and then insert to PowerPoint. In fact you don’t need to install Facebook Photo Album downloader on your computer or get used to Firefox, today we’ll tell you a simple and powerful way – free online tool Pick n Zip. It will allow you to download photos from Facebook in a single Zip or PDF file.

To start using this service, you just have to login with your Facebook account. Pick n Zip allows you to download tagged photos of you and also, the albums of your friends. Click “Albums” tab on the right and you will see all your Photo Albums are placed there.

Open the Photo album and select the photos you want to download.

Then click the “Download” tab and you can choose to download all photos or only the selected photos.

A prompt will show up and you can choose to save your Facebook photo albums as Zip or PDF file. We recommend you choose Zip file because later you need to insert the photos to PowerPoint.

Run you PowerPoint program and click “Insert” → “Photo Album” so that you can turn the Facebook photos into a PowerPoint photo album, with one photo on one slide.

Method 2: Create PowerPoint Photo Album Online

Start out by visiting http://docs.com/Slideshow. Also you need to login with your Facebook account. You should allow Docs.com to access your Facebook Photo albums.

Select the album that you want to create a PowerPoint slideshow from.

Then you can set the privacy of the output slideshow, who can view it and who can edit it.

Now click “Create” to turn the Facebook Photo album into slideshow.

After the conversion is completed, it will show on the webpage. Now click “Open in PowerPoint” on the top left of the slideshow window. This will prompt you to download the file, which you can then open in PowerPoint.

Tips: To finally make a video or DVD slideshow as Valentine’s gift, you will need the help of Moyea PPT to Video Converter or Moyea PPT to DVD Burner, which will convert the PowerPoint photo album to video or DVD disc with the original effects includes fonts, languages, music, video clips, animations and transitions, etc.

I hope that this information helps in creating PowerPoint slideshow from Facebook photo albums in an easy and efficient way.

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