Sending Presentation to a PC requiring compression for WinZip

[IanMoseley]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

The instructor at my online College has requested that I send my Power Point Presentation to the school (which I believe uses a PC). He has requested that we send the Presentation in a compressed form, which he will be able to open using Win-Zip. I don't know how to do this. I just successfully created my first Power Point Presentation ever. Please help. Thank You.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello Ian;

In Tiger you should be able to Control/Right-Click the PPt file, point to
Stuffit> Mail> Zip and Mail, address your message, type your content & send.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Bob's recommendations are correct - but you need to have Stuffit installed
first. It wasn't installed when I first set up Tiger on both my Mac mini and
my year 2006 MacBook - I had to go and download it.

Jeff

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

The instructor at my online College has requested that I send my Power Point Presentation to the school (which I believe uses a PC). He has requested that we send the Presentation in a compressed form, which he will be able to open using Win-Zip. I don't know how to do this. I just successfully created my first Power Point Presentation ever. Please help. Thank You.

Hi

You don't need Stuffit, although it will work fine if you use it.

Tiger has zip capabilities all by itself.
Control-click the file in Finder and choose Make Archive from the pop-up
menu.

-Jim

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[Jeff Chapman]

Thanks for that, Jim - that's right.
I noticed that "Create From Archive" option as well,
but wasn't sure if it was a basic Tiger feature, or if it
had been installed as part of StuffIt.

Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

The instructor at my online College has requested that I send my Power Point Presentation

to the school (which I believe uses a PC). He has requested that we send the Presentation in
a compressed form, which he will be able to open using Win-Zip. I don't know how to do this.
I just successfully created my first Power Point Presentation ever. Please help. Thank You.

There's never been much point in zipping up PowerPoint files, as they're already fairly
tightly compressed. There's even less point in zipping PPT 2007/2008 files because they
already *ARE* zip file.

Your instructor might not be aware of this. I'd mention it in the body of the email to which
you attach your PPTX file (as saved from PPT, no further surgery required).

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[CyberTaz]

Exactly!!! If he/she unzips a .___x file that *isn't* zipped it will not be
usable and may not be repairable.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Exactly!!! If he/she unzips a .___x file that *isn't* zipped it will not be
usable and may not be repairable.

You'd have to do this deliberately ... unzipping a file that's not a .ZIP wouldn't

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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