Burning a Powerpoint presentation to a CD

Reality|Bites · 14 Jul 2007 at 17:34

I have a collegue in work who is having problem burning a powerpoint presentation to a CD, I was asked for some advice but I have never used powerpoint and I don't fully understand the problem of why she can't just burn it normally using Nero.

She told me the she wants to copy the presentation to CD in such a way that it will just play from the CD but the presentation won't copy over.

Any one know or understand this problem as I havn't a clue what's she's on about really.

dan^uk · 14 Jul 2007 at 18:10

There is a feature in PowerPoint 2003/2007 called "Package for CD" (called Pack & Go in previous versions), which will burn the presentation directly to cd along with the PowerPoint viewer (so that the presentation can be viewed without installing any software)...

I assume she is getting copy errors when trying to burn directly.. she could try using "Copy to Folder", then burn the contents of the folder to cd using Nero.

rickyt · 15 Jul 2007 at 11:31

There was a program out a while back called Powerpoint to DVD . I think it converted the PP files and put them onto a DVD disk so you can play them on a standalone player or in the PC .I got it but have never tried it out .

encephalopathy · 15 Jul 2007 at 14:38

sounds like she needs to do 2 things

save the talk as a powerpointshow .pps format so when it runs, it opens the talk directly

create a little custom autorun.inf file for the root of the cd - point this to open the .pps file above and away she goes

here is a free autorun.inf maker
http://www.ashzfall.com/products/autorun/

IAmATeaf · 15 Jul 2007 at 20:17

If she can't actually burn the presentation to CD then it's more then likely that she has a reference to file within the presentation that can't be referenced or isn't physically on the local harddrive. So get the error and see exactly what the problem is.