Two ‘Points are better than one! Using SharePoint Slide Libraries in PowerPoint 2007
Sharepoint Powerpoint Slides
You, too, can create a Slide Library
Now let me get one thing clear up front: I’m not what you might call a “SharePoint savvy” guy. But the process for setting up a Slide Library on My Site was very straight-forward.
First, I opened up my profile on the corporate intranet. Then, I clicked Site Actions and then clicked Create.
Which then led me to this page …
On the New page, I entered in a name for the slide library, whether I want the link to this library to show up in Quick Launch, and if I want to keep a version of each slide after editing.
So now I have a blank Slide Library. Yay! But I hear some of you asking the obvious question “That’s great, but how do I populate the Slide Library with slides?”
Well never fear, because you have the option to either Upload slides directly to the Slide Library from the site (see the graphic above), or you can publish slides to your Slide Library from with PowerPoint.
To do that, open the presentation that you want to publish to your Slide Library in PowerPoint 2007. Click the Office Button in the top left corner, point to Publish, and click Publish Slides. You’ll then see the Publish Slides dialog box.
Select all the slides that you want in your Slide Library, and click Publish.
Then go to your Slide Library and you will see the slides you just added.
So now that you’ve created a Slide Library and added slides to it, it’s time to take it out for a test drive. Do you remember that Reuse Slides feature in PowerPoint that I mentioned earlier? That’s where we can access the Slide Library from inside PowerPoint.
To reuse slides from your Slide Library, on the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the arrow button below New Slide, and select Reuse Slides. Then, in the Reuse Slides task pane, click Open a Slide Library, navigate to your Slide Library, and click Select.
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