How to view powerpoint presentation on TV

Microsoft PowerPoint is widely used by people. You may use it to create company profiles, informative presentations, presentations on your products or services. Have you ever imagined transferring them to DVD for viewing PowerPoint presentations on TV sets? Thus, you can:

1. Distribute the DVD copies that contained company profile out to potential and existing customers to avoid printing them.

2. Display the informative presentation on TV for waiting room, lobby or foyer.

3. Make in-housing DVD advertising slideshow for your menu board of your restaurant, nightclub, ice cream store, or hot books in your bookstore, and so on.

Then, how can we view PowerPoint on TV? The method to view PowerPoint on standard TV is different from the method to view PPT through Apple TV.

View PowerPoint on stand TV with DVD player

To play PowerPoint presentation on TV, you need to use a solution to save your PowerPoint presentation to DVD. A time-effective method is to use an all-in-one PPT to DVD converter that retain all subtleties in the original PowerPoint, such as animations, transitions, sounds, video clips, and even hyperlinks between slides!

Wondershare PPT2DVD is recommended. Moreover,it is an easy-to-use utility that could burn your PPT into blank DVD disc so that you could watch PPT on TV or other media player without a computer. Follow the steps to convert PowerPoint to DVD:

Step 1: Download and install PPT2DVD converter. Start it and mount an empty DVD disc.

Step2: Choose Standard DVD as the output choice.

Step3: Import PowerPoint presentation with PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX entensions which you want to save to DVD. You can import up to 12 files at one time.

Step4: Do choose the right TV standard and leave other advanced settings as default for the first testing.

Step5: Choose the right DVD menu theme you want or customize it.

Step6: Tick Burn to Disc and click Start the converting and burning process.

After conversion and burning, you can play your PowerPoint presentations with PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX extensions on TV through DVD player.

Obviously, this is a time-effective and easy-to-use method for viewing PowerPoint on TV. Anyway, DVD player is very cheap, at the some time, it is convenient for distribution after burning PowerPoint to DVD.

Watch PowerPoint on TV via Apple TV

Apple TV is a network device that allows consumers to use an HDTV set to view photos, play music and watch video that originates from an Internet media service or a local network. When you want to watch PowerPoint on TV via Apple TV, you should follow these steps:

Step 1: Convert PowerPoint to certain Video formats like MP4 that can accepted by iTunes and sync. You can use this tool PowerPoint to Apple TV. You can also use PPT2DVD converter or PPT to Video converter help you convert the certain format that can accepted by Apple TV.

Step 2: Upload the video to iTunes and sync to Apple TV, then you can watch you presentation on you HDTV.

Further benefits to view PPT on TV

• Show presentations with everybody without a computer.

• Share your slideshows to others widely and freely, because TV sets and DVD player are very popular.

• Prevent your presentations be modified by others.

• Preserve your slideshows for a long time

After using these methods, we can distribute the company profile with DVD copies, display the informative presentation on TV in waiting room, lobby or foyer, and make in-housing DVD advertising slideshow easily. Actually, by saving PowerPoint to DVD, you can also create training DVD, annual report, and photo slideshow and so on.

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Reduce the Size of PowerPoint Slideshow for e-mail

Problem：I just made a slide show of my honeymoon to Hawaii with PowerPoint. I want to share it with my friends and relatives. However, it is too big to send as e-mail attachment. What can I do?

Solutions:
You need to reduce the size of your PowerPoint slideshow. The following solutions will help you reduce the size of your PowerPoint.

1. Change graphics file formats to reduce the size of PowerPoint:

There may be many images in graphic formats like bitmap (.bmp) in your PowerPoint presentation. You can open bitmap images with a program like Microsoft accessory tool -Paint to converts images and save them in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf to make your presentation smaller. Once your images have been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your slide.
It is a little time-consuming to save all the images again if there are lots of pictures.

2. Use file Save as :

This method can reduce the size of the file by up to 50% in some cases.

Step 1: Open the PowerPoint slide show.
Step 2: Click Microsoft office button

• Under the pop-up window click save as arrow.
• In the file type dropdown list Choose PowerPoint presentation
• Type a new name and click save.

3. Compress Pictures in PowerPoint:

Compress pictures in your presentation, then you can optimize the size by compressing pictures.

Step1: click the picture to bring up the Picture Tools

• Under the picture tool tab just Click Format
• In the Adjust group click Compress Pictures

Step2: on the Compress Pictures window choose the Options…

Step3: on the Compression Settings window:

• Compression options: automatically perform basic compression on save and delete cropped areas of pictures.
• Target output: Choose E-mail (96 ppi) output to reduce the size of PowerPoint Click ok.
  

4. Converting your PowerPoint presentation to flash:

You could try to convert your presentation to Flash and send the Flash file to others. The music will be embedded in Flash presentation. And then the flash slide show could be show on other computers without any problems.

Some third party presentation tool such as Wondershare PPT2Flash Standard can help you do this work. You can convert it with one click. Of course, all the original effect can be retained in Flash. Alternatively, you can also convert your PowerPoint presentation to video.

Note:
If your slide show is too large with hundreds of MB, you may also consider saving it on DVD for distributing and sharing. Wondershare PPT2DVD would help you save your PowerPoint slide show to DVD with music and all animations retained.

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How can I view PowerPoint 2007 files on the computer with PowerPoint 2003?

Problem

I just completed my photo slide show with PowerPoint 2007 and I want to share it with my best friend. However, she only has PowerPoint 2003 on her computer.
How can we view PowerPoint 2007 slide show on the computer with PowerPoint 2003?

Solutions

1. Resave the PowerPoint 2007 presentation in PowerPoint 97-2003 format.

Step 1: Open the PowerPoint slide show.
Step 2: Click Microsoft office button, and click Save as. Then choose PowerPoint 1997-2003 presentation in the file type dropdown list.

2. Use the Package a Presentation for CD feature in PowerPoint 2007.

You can package your presentation to the CD for distributing freely. To packages a presentation for CD, do the following:
Step1: In PowerPoint, open the presentation that you want to package.
Step2: Click the Microsoft Office Button, point to the arrow next to Publish, and then click Package for CD.
Step3: In the Package for CD dialog box, click Options, and then select the options that you want.
Step4: Click Copy to CD.

Disadvantages of the solutions above:
Some of the effects in PowerPoint 2007 would be lost. The solutions below can solve the problems caused by version difference and avoid the missing problem.

3. Download and install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats.

For more details please check it out below:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

4. Download the free PowerPoint Viewer 2007 directly from Microsoft Office Online

For more details please check it out below:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

5. Use some third-party tools to convert and burn PowerPoint presentation to DVD

Wondershare PPT2DVD enables users to convert existing PowerPoint presentations to dynamic DVD with stunning DVD menus or popular video movies with ease .After conversion, you can view your PowerPoint slide show on TV or on PC like a movie without any version difference or compatible problem. What’s more, you can even choose to create DVD to play in manual mode which enables you to navigate the slide show using remote control on TV or mouse on PC.
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powerpoint to DVD burner

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