I often use PowerPoint for presentations. Confronted with such disadvantage: PowerPoint is not installed on each computer. Advise me an alternative solution, as you can get without having to install PowerPoint, and is it possible?
How to do a PowerPoint presentation without PowerPoint available
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Converting formats has always been challenging, at least for me. I don't know that you are going to find a one step solution but here is how I would recommend executing:
Create a Master from the correct file.
View Tab >> Slide Master (under Master Views Section)
This brings up all the different slide types and allows you to configure them however you like. It will take some time and effort to create the master. MAKE A BACKUP I suggest a working copy and a backup copy of the blank master...in the case of saving over the top of it on accident...
- Convert old presentations
This is where its messy. Select everything in the old presentations and paste only the content
Chances are at this point you will have to do a little cleanup.
This definitely is not a one step process, but once it is organized it works very well. Anytime you need to create a new presentation you simply open up the working copy of the master and save as.
Also worth mentioning that the more you can avoid custom formatting in the individual presentations the easier it will be to convert/modify your master in the future.
Based on what you explained:
A.
What you request is not possible in the PowerPoint by simple command somewhere on toolbar because main purpose of the PowerPoint is elsewhere.
B.
It is possible to create macro using VBA programming. Programmatically
- Iterate over all shapes and calculate top, left, bottom and right edge of all (= of entire drawing).
- Move every shape (set its Left and Top properties) so that center of the entire drawing (of group of shapes) will become the center of the slide. Reason: I can see that size change is made in relation to the center of the slide, so center your stuff before slide resizing.
- Set slide size to width and height calculated from values collected in step 1.
Based on your StackOverflow profile, I can see you are a programmer so if you really need this feature, it shouldn't be so difficult for you to put it together and save a lot of time in future on resizing of slides.
Shapes are in collection ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes (use For Each ... Next). You can find a ton of examples – keyword is vba, e.g. vba powerpoint resize slide or vba powerpoint iterate shapes.
VBA code editor is reachable using Alt+F11. In editor, object model can be studied using F2 – object inspector. Every object is well-documented, press help icon in object inspector. Store your macro in the presentation and save your file as type PowerPoint macro-enabled presentation or as PowerPoint macro-enabled template. If you get stuck, first search and then feel free to ask at the StackOverflow. VBA coding is relatively trivial. It has couple of oddities (do not use parenthesis on procedure call, only in function call; element indexes in collections start at 1), but they are quite bearable.
Also see commands in Debug menu to boost up your development. You can modify the live code when your program waits (yellow line) and you can use Set next statement command to move your current execution point forward or back, wherever you want. A great time saver.
When in PowerPoint, you can open the macro list using Alt+F8 or from View menu.
Best Answer
Microsoft provides PowerPoint Viewer free of charge. It won't allow you to modify PowerPoint presentations, but it will allow you to play them. I don't think there's a portable version that can be run from a thumb drive, but it's a small install for computers that don't have the full Office treatment.