Help putting presentation onto a disc?

duncan32

Hello,

My daughter has spent a long time over the past month preparing a presentation for her school homework. It's basically like a powepoint, I suppose. I assumed that I would be able to easily burn it onto a disc or something but now that it comes to doing it I am at a complete loss as to what to do. She has to do the presentation on Monday! :eek::eek::eek:

It's lots of writing and copy and pasting of pictures from the net and she has used "open office org impress".

Could anyone please give me some guidance on what I need to do to get this onto a disc that she can take to school?

Thanks in advance.

Duncan

fwor

The key thing (which you don't say) is: what software will be installed on the PC at school that she will use for her presentation?

If it has Powerpoint, then just follow one of the online guides such as this one:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2190273_save-openoffice-impress-presentations-as.html

to save it in a form that PowerPoint will open. She can expect minor differences in layout as a result, as none of these conversions are perfect.

There are other options - for example if the school PC has Adobe Reader then you could export to a .PDF and display it in that, or you can export to html/flash, which any browser should be able to open. If you are going to use either of those, I would test out the result on your own PC, to see what the result is like - better that than her finding it's not good on Monday...

duncan32

Thanks!
I have saved it as Powerpoint onto the desktop, then.

So, do I now just burn it to a disc now (dvd or cd?).

Sorry, I'm not stupid, just not done this particular thing before!

Thanks again.

Duncan

:beer:

bengalknights

Use a software called imgburn pick the file then press burn to disc

http://www.imgburn.com/

Hammyman

Don't need to bother with the above. Open up My Computer, drag the file to the CD ROM Icon and then select Burn to Disc. It'll ask if you want it to be able to be modified or readable on all computers, choose the latter.

Personally, I'd buy her a cheap USB memory stick and save it there.

sleepless_saver

And after you've burned it to disk or saved it to a memory stick (best option), it's a good idea to open it from there just to check it's all worked OK.

duncan32

Thanks all.

I went with the USB stick option in the end (had a spare one lying about so have taken everything off that and put her work onto it).

Opened it from the disc and it opens fine, but I'm still :eek::eek: that it's not going to work properly tomorrow for her!!!!!

Fingers crossed, anyway!

Duncan

:T

jbreckmckye

OpenOffice Impress is just an open source equivalent to Powerpoint.

You can either:

* have Impress export to Microsoft Powerpoint format, which the school can play, or
* include a portable copy of OO on the disc, and use it to present the report

paddyrg

May be a bit late now but if you read this before breakfast...

Make sure you have all the images *embedded* in the presentation, not linked. It will look fine on the pc you wrote it on, but if the pres links to images that aren't on the school computer in the right folder structure (which they won't be), you'll have blanks or gaps. Test it on a different machine if at all possible. Or check in the morning, in Powerpoint proper there is an option to create a self-contained disc presentation, probably Impress can do similar, and probably worth checking over the cornflakes if you can.