Saving to CD

 

 

A really nice, new, neat feature in PowerPoint 2003 is the ability to save your PowerPoint 2003 presentation to a CD and take it anywhere.  And when you take it to anywhere, you won’t need PowerPoint 2003 to show the presentation!  When the CD is created it includes a PowerPoint viewer that will show your CD, regardless of the computer you are using!

 

 

 

 

To use this feature, click-on File in the Menu Bar and then click Package for CD (see image and arrows on the right).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Package for CD menu screen will appear (like the image on the left).  Package for a CD will create a folder either on your computer or copy the folder directly to a CD (if your CD creation program allows for this).

The first thing we have to do is create a name for our folder and type-it in the Name the CD: area on the Package CD menu.

We chose “PBJ 2003 Present” (as seen in the image to the left).  Next, we decided to save this folder to our C: drive.  Last, we chose Copy to Folder… in the menu screen.  When we clicked on Copy to Folder… the Copy to Folder menu screen appeared (like the image below).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The name of our Folder is shown in the Folder name: area (created in the previous menu screen).  We chose to save the Folder to our C: hard disk drive, so we typed C:\ in the Location: area (as seen above).  You can also choose the Browse button so that you can “browse” to any drive on your computer to save the Folder.

When you have made your selections, click OK.

After you click OK, your computer will “run” for a few minutes and then return to the Package for CD menu screen on the last page.  When this occurs, simply click the Close button and the menu screen will go away.

 

 

 

If you then go to the drive on which you saved your folder, you will see a folder icon similar to the one on the right.  You can either double-click quickly on the folder to open it, or you can right click on the folder and select Open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you folder opens, you are able to see the files created by PowerPoint Package a CD, they will look something like the image below.  If you go to another computer that has PowerPoint 2003, the pbj 2003.ppt file is available for you.  If the computer does not have PowerPoint 2003, you can use the pptview.exe file to show your presentation (see arrows below). 

 

 

 

 

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