Creating Slide Libraries

After you put time and energy (and teamwork) into creating an effective presentation, why not leverage that work so that you can use the information as content in other presentations? Now you can save slides to a Slide Library and add them—in the new presentation’s style—to the presentation you’re working on.

Tip

Create slides with information you use repeatedly in business communications—for example, your mission statement, organizational chart, contact information, or hiring policy—and save them to a Slide Library so you can easily insert them in future presentations.


To save a presentation as a Slide Library so that you can easily reuse the slides later, open the File menu, point to Publish, and choose Publish Slides (see Figure 6-10). In the Publish Slides dialog box, click the checkbox of the slides you want to save to the library, click Browse to select the folder in which you want to save the slides, and click Publish (see Figure 6-11).

Figure 6-10. Choose the Publish command in the File menu to begin the process of creating a slide library.


Figure 6-11. Choose the slides you want to include in the library by selecting them in the Publish Slides dialog box.


Figure 6-12. Use the Reuse Slides task pane to locate and select the slides you want to add to your presentation.


Benefits of XML

The Microsoft Office system uses Microsoft Office Open XML format as the default format for all applications. Files saved in Office PowerPoint 2007 are assigned the .pptx file extension. Saving a file in XML offers a number of benefits for users. First, XML enables you to separate data and formatting so that information you create in one application can easily be used in other forms. Secondly, XML files are much smaller than traditional files—especially when it comes to the graphics-intensive files that Office PowerPoint creates—so the new Office PowerPoint 2007 files are much smaller, easier to download, manage, and share.


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