How to Put Slides on a CD
CDs are portable and most systems have spaces for them, which make them good candidates for moving slides, or a slide show, from one place to another. Getting the slides onto the CD is a different story. Thankfully, you do not have to take each slide and put it onto the CD individually. Microsoft PowerPoint makes it simple to copy slides or slide shows to a CD for transport. You can also save the entire file directly to the CD itself.
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Instructions
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Method
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Put a blank CD in your CD tray.
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Open the slide show you wish to save in PowerPoint. You can do this by double-clicking the slide show itself or opening PowerPoint and selecting it through the "Open" option.
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Click the "Office" button and select "Publish," then "Package to CD." This gives you a dialogue box. Read it carefully.
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Name your CD. This name tells the computer what to call the CD, it does not change the name of your slide show.
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Select "Files to be Copied" and "Linked Files." The defaults are to automatically include the presentation you are currently in, plus any files linked to it. If that is all you want, click "Copy to CD." If you need to add another file, click "Files to be Copied," browse and select the appropriate file to add.
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Click "Copy to CD." This tells the computer you want to copy the file to the CD. When you do this, if you have "linked files" you get a dialogue box asking whether you truly want to include linked files on your CD. Click the appropriate option and copying begins. Wait until the computer indicates it is finished or the CD pops out.
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Double-check your work. Take your completed CD from your computer and put it into another. This is to insure that your slide show copied appropriately.
Direct to CD Method
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Put a blank CD into your CD drive.
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Right-click your slide show and, in the resulting menu, select "Send To." Select your CD drive. This indicates to your computer you want to burn the selected presentation to a CD.
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Click "Burn to CD" and wait until the computer indicates the CD is finished or pops out the CD.
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Double-check your work by taking the CD and opening your slides on another computer.
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