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How to View PowerPoint on Android Devices with Five Methods

pptstar — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:17:00 +0000

What do we usually do with Android smartphones/tablets in daily life? Take a call, text messages, send and check E-mail, and play games? How about dealing with working affairs on the go? Of course, we can also manage business with our Android devices since that all kinds of Android working-related apps have been developed on Google Play and some manufactories like Samsung have pushed off some unique android-based services to target business users!

We often use PowerPoint on the working, and If we can view PowerPoint presentation on Android smartphones and tablets, that will be more convenient and flexible for our life! However, Microsoft has no plan to develop Android version of Microsoft Office so far. So we have to figure out some alternatives to watch PowerPoint on Android! That is why this blog is written and we will share five methods to view PowerPoint on Android!

Method One: Android Office Apps

There are a number of Android office apps on the Android Market, so we can easily download some to play PowerPoint presentation on Android devices, such as Quickoffice, Documents to Go and ThinkFree Mobile. Those office apps all offer basic functions for viewing PowerPoint. But they are limited in functions when we want to play original animations and transitions, and edit PowerPoint freely with this kind of apps.

Method Two: Save PowerPoint as Images

The PowerPoint presentation can easily be saved as images, so it could be one choice to view PowerPoint as images on Android devices!

Step 1: Click “File” button (“Office” in PowerPoint 2007)> “Save As”

Step 2: Choose “.jpg” or “.png”for maximum quality in the “Save As type” drop down menu, then click “Save”. When PowerPoint asks whether you want to export all slides, select “Every Slide”.

Method Three: Turn PowerPoint to PDF

Images are easy to view but difficult to edit! Meanwhile, we can view and take notes on PDF files! If we save PowerPoint to PDF file for Android devices, the presentation PDF is easily viewed with PDF viewers, sent by e-mail and transferred between devices!

Step 1: Click “File” button (“Office” in PowerPoint 2007)> “Save As”

Step 2: Choose “.pdf” in the drop down menu of “Save As type”, then click “Save”.

Method Four: Convert PowerPoint to Video

Obviously, those above methods couldn’t preserve all original animations, transitions and media files, and video can make up those flaws! After converting PowerPoint to video, the PowerPoint video can be played smoothly on Android devices with all effects of PowerPoint!

Save PowerPoint as video in PowerPoint 2010 or later
(This function is not supported on PowerPoint 2007 and 2003. In addition, WMV is the only video format when saving PowerPoint to video in PowerPoint 2010)Step 1: Click “File” button > “Save As”Step 2: Choose “.wmv” in the drop down menu of “Save As type”, then click “Save”.

Method Five: Upload PowerPoint online

If we don’t want those PowerPoint files to occupy the limited memory of Android devices and hope that our friends and colleagues can also view the PowerPoint presentations on their Android devices, it could be a great alternative to upload and share PowerPoint online! There are some great sharing websites like Slideshare.net that allow uploading PowerPoint files. With this way, we can easily view PowerPoint on Android devices with web Brower

Keynote for iPad: Best practices for creating a presentation on a Mac for use on an iPad

pptstar — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:50:33 +0000

When you create a Keynote presentation on your Mac that you intend to share to an iPad, your presentations will look their best if you follow the recommendations below.

When you create a new presentation on your Mac, use one of the following themes:
- Black
- Blackboard
- Craft
- Gradient
- Harmony
- Modern Portfolio
- Moroccan
- Parchment
- Showroom
- White

From the bottom-right corner of the Theme Chooser screen, set the Slide Size to “1024 x 768.”

Use fonts common to both the Mac and iPad platforms. Fonts that are not available on the iPad are replaced with the Helvetica font.

Choose from these Master Slides:
- Blank
- Title
- Title & Subtitle
- Title & Bullets
- Title, Bullets & Photo
- Bullets
- Photo
- Photo – Horizontal

To ensure your images look their best and are optimized for use in Keynote for iPad, scale them to their intended size before adding them to your slide and use the PNG format whenever possible. You can convert your image easily using the Preview application on your Mac:
1. Open Preview.
2. Open the image you want to convert to PNG.
3. Use Adjust Size from the Tools menu to scale images to their intended size.
4. From the File menu select Save As and then select the PNG option.
If you need to use an image in a PDF format, use the Preview application to reduce the file size by Compressing your PDF files.
Do not override the theme backgrounds by making changes in the Slide Inspector’s Image Fill drop-down menu.

Keynote for Mac can reduce the size of images and videos to match their use on a slide and keep the presentation size to a minimum. It’s always a good idea to back up your document before using the Reduce File Size feature.
1. To reduce the file size of an individual image that you’ve masked or resized to a smaller size, select the image and choose Format > Image > Reduce Image File Size.
2. To reduce the sizes of all masked and resized (shrunk) images, and shortened videos, choose File > Reduce File Size.

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pptstar — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:36:38 +0000

The Do’s and Don’ts of Smartphone Etiquette

pptstar — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:00:18 +0000

By Jennifer Chang

As someone who frequently writes and edits tech content for SUCCESS, I have a simple meter for how market domination works: if my mom uses or understands it, then it has a chance at becoming wildly successful. My 65-year-old mom became active on Facebook in 2009, around the same time it surpassed MySpace as the leading online social network in the United States. She also got an iPad right before Apple’s most successful selling period of the device, in the first quarter of 2013. Coincidence?

Of course, I’m (half-) joking, but smartphones and similar devices are certainly ubiquitous, even to my dear mother who used to have difficulty double-clicking. And while we have telephone etiquette and email etiquette, the parameters for social media or smartphone etiquette aren’t as clearly defined.

So as we approach the season of holiday parties and family gatherings, you might want to consider this infographic by eBay Deals on smartphone etiquette—what’s considered acceptable (or not acceptable), depending on age group, event and situation.

From unsurprising ambiguity on smartphone usage in the workplace to a surprisingly high percentage of people who approve of texting behind the wheel at the red light, the results are fascinating. I don’t know if I agree with all of the infographic’s findings, but I’m definitely introducing the phrase “phubbing” (short for phone-snubbing, or neglecting people in real life in favor of your smart phone) to my mom to see if it catches on.

What about you? Do you agree or disagree with the smartphone etiquette rules below?