Despite a phalanx of competitors emerging in recent years, PowerPoint remains the industry standard for delivering presentations, and the emergence of the iPad app cements its position in the boardroom. However, the iPad app is a different beast from the desktop software, and has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Our top 10 tips will show you how to get the most from PowerPoint on the iPad. Create on the PC, refine on the iPad If at all possible, avoid creating presentations on the iPad itself. The iPad app has only 20 presentation templates to choose from, compared to the thousands available to download from the PC and Mac version, and some of those 20 are mundane. Any template that you download on the PC/Mac is editable on the iPad, even if it’s not one of those preloaded in the app. If you do decide to create a presentation on the tablet, be wary of the same fonts issue that afflicts the Microsoft Word app. If you choose iOS fonts, they won’t be displayed properly when you open the presentation on the PC, and you may experience problems with text running out of boxes or wrapping around images erratically.
Beam the presentation wirelessly The iPad is better suited to delivering, rather than creating, presentations. You can beam your presentation wirelessly to a big display or projector using Apple’s AirPlay technology, and use the iPad to flick through slides and more. To do this, you’ll either need an Apple TV or Mac (2011 onwards) connected to your large display, or a PC running AirPlay compatible software such as AirServer (). Both iPad and the receiving Apple TV/Mac/PC must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
How can I work in other applications while using PowerPoint presenter view on mac? I found that in PowerPoint Mac 2011: go to 'Slide Show' tab in the ribbon. Your solution only works if not using the Presenter View, and only having PowerPoint running on the external display, which does not allow you to use Presenter View. I’d give it an A. Slideshark also has a fantastic presenter view that allows you to easily see your notes and upcoming slides very similar to PowerPoint’s presenter view. The downside to Slideshark is that you cannot make edits to the slide show from the iPad.
Once connected, you can mirror the iPad’s display on the big screen, but when you open your presentation on the iPad you should put it into Presenter View, by clicking the Slide Show tab and selecting the relevant option. Now your iPad will display any presenter notes you’ve made and forthcoming slides, while the viewers of the big screen display will only see the presentation itself. If you hold your finger down on the main window showing the current slide, you’ll activate the virtual laser pointer, allowing you to highlight key points on the slide.
The pen tools in the top right of the screen let you draw on or use a highlighter pen on your slides. Learn the gestures You’ll need to be familiar with a few gesture controls to get the most out of PowerPoint for iPad, some of which aren’t obvious. For example, if you’re in full-screen slideshow view – activated by pressing the Play button in the top right-hand corner – you can use a closed pinch gesture to return to the editing view, which is quicker than tapping at the top of the screen and selecting End Slide Show. If you want to move a slide to a new position in the deck, simply tap on its thumbnail in the edit view and drag it to the desired position.
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I then tried the same experiment but just copied the second folder over – that entire copy continued and was completed after turning WiFi off. Looking at the HDD, I could see that the first folder and its subfolders and all files were copied but the second folder (alphabetically) was not. Wd my passport for mac solid light but not working. Bottom line, if you have a photo SD card with a DCIM folder, you can initiate the copy of that one folder (and its subfolders) and the copy will continue if you disconnect from the FileHub.
Importing old-format presentations PowerPoint for iPad can work with presentations created in either the latest Office formats (.pptx files) or the older PowerPoint 97-2003 formats (.ppt and.pps). However, any files opened in the older formats will need to be converted to.pptx before you can edit them. PowerPoint for iPad will give you the option to convert the old-style presentations when you first open them. Transferring Keynote presentations Given that PowerPoint for iPad only launched earlier this year, it’s likely that you might have some presentations stored in Apple’s own presentation app, Keynote.