After you create a presentation or slideshow on PowerPoint 2007, you might want to take it with you to the place where you have to convey the presentation. You can easily make a PowerPoint 2007 presentation CD if you can’t carry your computer with you. If you make a PowerPoint 2007 presentation CD, you can easily distribute it to others as well. You will need a writable CD drive installed in the computer you are using. A blank CD will also be required. Put it in the CD drive before starting this procedure. Follow these steps in order to make a PowerPoint 2007 presentation CD:  

Open the PowerPoint 2007 presentation you want to transfer into a compact disk.


Click on the "Office" button.

Select "Publish" and click on "Package for CD" from the menu.

The "Package for CD" window will open. Choose the kind of package you want to use by clicking on Options. The "Viewer Package" choice contains the PowerPoint viewer. The Viewer Package choice is suitable when the person you want to give the CD to doesn’t have PowerPoint in his computer.

Select the "Embedded Truetype Fonts" checkbox on the Options menu. This will make the presentation fonts legible on a different computer.

If you have added external files, such as a narration in the presentation, then select the checkbox called "Linked files".

Click on the "OK" button.

Select the "Copy to Folder" option from the “Package for CD” window. A back-up copy of the presentation will be made on the drive.

Now click on the "Copy to CD" button from the “Package for CD” window pane.

After you make a PowerPoint 2007 presentation CD, you can take it out of your computer and check if it is working on a different computer.

External Hard Drives have become extremely common use and are very affordable. Why should you use an external had drive and what can you use them for?

External Hard Drives come in multiple options. The first option is a portable media drives, these are smaller in size and capacity usually. The other option is the external hard drive, these are usually bigger in size and capacity. 


What can you use an external hard drive for?

• Storing Music, Photos, Videos on. (since these files usually take up large amounts of space it is best to store them on an external hard drive).  
• Backing up your important files. (making copies of all your important files is essential.) the smallest virus or hardware failure could result in you losing your files.
• Storing install files from software you have downloaded from the internet

Why should you use an external hard drive?

• Easy user friendly way to expand your storage space on your computer with  out having to get a computer tech to install a bigger hard drive into your system.
• It is portable (even the big ones) and can be attached to any other computer.