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How to Share Slides Without PowerPoint
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Not every recipient has PowerPoint, and asking them to install it just to read your slides is a bad ask.
Common reasons to convert first
- ·Conference and journal submissions that require PDF, not .pptx
- ·Sending lecture slides to students who need to annotate and print them
- ·Sharing a pitch deck with a prospect who should not be able to edit it
PDF also fixes the layout in place — no risk of a recipient's different PowerPoint version reflowing your slides or substituting fonts.
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