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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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