How to Use Microsoft PowerPoint to Collaborate

1. How to Use Microsoft PowerPoint to Collaborate

2. How to Use Microsoft PowerPoint to Collaborate Microsoft PowerPoint is a program used to create presentations to present your ideas or other official use. PowerPoint also has other features that enable you to collaborate with your friends or colleagues to make changes or leave comments on your presentation. Collaboration is a great idea when it comes to working on a project in a group. Thus, below is the guide on how to collaborate using Microsoft PowerPoint.

3. How to Share a Presentation? Before you collaborate with others to work on a presentation, sharing it is a primary step. The steps to share your presentation with others are: Open the presentation that you want to share in the PowerPoint. Hit on the ‘Share’ option on the top-right corner of the screen. The next window will appear as the methods to share the presentation. Also, it’ll show the users with whom you’ve already shared it. The two ways to share the presentation are: Invite People and Get a Link. The steps to share the presentation using the ‘Invite people’ option are: Enter the email addresses of all the participants you want to share the presentation. You may enter a short note for the recipients. Change the permission settings regarding the presentation that are ‘Read and Write’ and ‘Read-Only.’ Select if recipients need or don’t need a Microsoft account to access the presentation from the drop-down menu. The final step is to hit the ‘Share’ button. The steps to share the presentation via an alternate method, i.e. ‘Get a Link’ are: Select the ‘Read and Write’ or ‘Read-Only’ permission for the presentation. Click on the ‘Create Link’ option. A link will be generated. You can share the link with anyone you want to share the presentation with.

4. How to Collaborate on a Presentation? PowerPoint enables you to view the active participants that are viewing or working on your presentation. Not only this, but it also allows you to view what changes are being made.  To view what someone is working on, the steps are: A thumbnail will appear at the top of the presentation when someone is making changes to the presentation. Click on the thumbnail to view the participant name and the slide they’re working on. To jump to that slide, click on the ‘Go to Location’ option that appears when you click on the thumbnail. You’ll be able to view the exact section they’re working on. Leave Feedback or Comments An important feature offered by PowerPoint is that you can leave feedback for others to read. The steps to leave a comment are: Select the text for which you want to leave the comment. A menu will appear. Select the ‘New Comment’ option from the same. Enter the comment you want others to read and click on the red arrow icon once done. Anyone who’ll open the slide next time will see a message bubble.

5. Additional Features PowerPoint has additional premium features for the collaborators to make their job easy. For example, real-time chat is a very useful feature that offers you to have a real-time conversation with any other participant. All in all, PowerPoint is an efficient platform to use either for your presentations or collaborating with your colleagues. Though the premium version provides additional features, it isn’t really required while collaborating.

6. AUTHOR BIO Eva winget is an avid technical blogger, a magazine, a publisher of guides at  and a professional cyber security analyst.. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world. SOURCE: How to Use Microsoft PowerPoint to Collaborate