PDF format provides the ability to display the appearance of the original document without any restrictions from the operating system or version of the installed software. This article is about how to convert a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.
Creating a PDF from a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
By default, this version of the program does not support PDF as a format for saving files. Therefore, Microsoft has released a patch that adds this feature. You can download it from the official site.
To add an add-in to the Microsoft Office package, just run the downloaded file and wait for a message about the successful installation.
Save a presentation to PDF in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 in 2 ways: quick and standard. In the first case, the sequence of actions is as follows:
- Open the finished file or save all changes in the current one.
- Press F12.
- In a new window, use the address bar and the folder view area to specify the location where the new one will be savedfile.
- In the lower part of the same window in the drop-down list "File type" select the line PDF.
- Press "Save".
The standard way is reduced to the following algorithm:
- Perform step 1 from the previous method.
- Press the "Office" button and hover over "Save As".
- In the menu that appears, select "PDF or XPS".
- Perform steps 3, 4 and 5 from the previous algorithm.
This completes how to convert a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.
Create a PDF from a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, 2013, 2016
In these versions of the program, the function of converting the PPT format (.ppt and.pptx) to PDF is built in from the beginning. There are 2 ways to create a PDF file from a presentation. The first one completely repeats the method for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 with the exception of one difference - instead of the "Office" button, the "File" button is used.
The second method comes down to the following sequence of actions:
- Open the main menu by pressing the "File" button.
- Select the item "Save and share" in it.
- In the new list, click on the line "Create PDF/XPS document".
- In the next block, click on the "Create PDF/XPS" button.
Follow steps3, 4 and 5 from the first method
Convert PDF to PPT and vice versa with online converters
The presentation editor does not have a tool to convert a PDF file to PowerPoint, as is sometimes required. The solution to this problem is to use one of the many free online services that allows you to convert PDF to any format supported by the Microsoft Office package. The most convenient converters to use:
- PDFtoPPT.com;
- Online-convert.com;
- PDF2Go.com.
Each of them is completely free and has no limit on the number of conversions.
Note. Once converted (PDF to PowerPoint), existing text and images cannot be formatted or edited in the presentation.
Summarizing, it can be said that it is quite easy to convert a PowerPoint presentation file into a PDF document, but this requires a version of the program that supports this feature or fast access to the Web.
