Create a Screen Saver from your Presentation: MS Powerpoint
by Carol Bratt on November, 6 2006 at 08:11AM EST
Have you ever received a PowerPoint presentation in an e-mail and you thought to yourself, "boy, would I like to have that picture for my screensaver?"
Well now you can. All you have to do is follow these steps (with PowerPoint 2002 and 2003):
- Open your PowerPoint presentation.
- Click on File | Save As and choose gif or jpg.
- Choose My Pictures folder to contain what you are saving.
- Click OK.
- Accept, when prompted, to export every slide.
- Close your presentation.
- Go to your desktop.
- Right click with your mouse and choose Properties | Screen Saver | My Pictures Slideshow.
- Browse for the presentation you have just saved as .gif in the dropdown list.
- Click on Apply.
- Click OK.
Pretty easy, eh?
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