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Okay so here's how you can save your slides as a PDF. Why would you want to do that? Well
saving as a PDF reduces the filesize. So if you've got a slideshow with lots of images
on there, you may want to save it as a PDF so that it's not quite as big of a file. Also
your students may not have the PowerPoint program necessary to open the PPTX file. If
you were to save it as a PDF then they'd need to download that Adobe Reader, the free program
to open a PDF, but that program is pretty common on our computers, so it's likely that
they'll be able to open the PDF easily. Also saving as a PDF prevents revisions from being
made to your slides. By the way when you do save your files as PDFs images come right
along with it and links stay hyperlinked. So hyperlinks like the one you're seeing here,
we'll save this as a PDF, and you'll see that this remains a hyperlink as well. Alright
so how do we go ahead and do this. Let's go up to our file menu, and from the file menu
we're going to select Save As. Here we click on our Browse button, and under the Save As
Type, we click on the list to get a long dropdown list here, you're looking for .PDF - portable
document format. That's what we're looking at, and it will give you the default filename.
It will take your PowerPoint file and use that as the same filename, but you'll see
.PDF instead. Select the location at which you want to save the file, and hit Save. Your
PDF is rendered and if you've got Adobe Reader installed on this computer then you'll see
that your document - your slides get opened up as a PDF document. You can scroll through
them. Here's this last one with my image and you can see here that my link is still live.
So that's how to save your slides as a PDF, a handy trick for reducing the filesize and
sharing your slides with your students.