Saving a Presentation as a Slide Show

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When you're giving a professional slide show presentation, you might not want your audience to see you start it from PowerPoint. Instead, you can save a presentation as a PowerPoint Show to open directly into Slide Show view. You can use the Save As dialog box to save a presentation as a PowerPoint Show (.ppsx) or PowerPoint Macro-Enabled (.ppsm). After you save a presentation as a PowerPoint Show file, you can create a shortcut to it on your desktop and then simply double-click the PowerPoint Show file to start it directly in Slide Show view.

Save a Presentation as a PowerPoint Show

Click the Office button, point to Save As, and then click PowerPoint Show.

Click the Save in list arrow, and then click the drive or folder where you want to save the file.

Type a presentation show file name.

Click the Save as type list arrow, and then click PowerPoint Show or PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Show.

Click Save.