4 Ways to View PowerPoint Presentation on iPad
Do you have a ton of PowerPoint presentations you want to view on your iPad? Playing PowerPoint presentation on iPad is wanted for most users of iPad, notebook, and Tablet PC. Even though your iPad isn’t able to play PowerPoint directly, there are some simple ways to get your iPad to display your PowerPoint slideshows. Let’s walk through the following 4 ways below to show you how to watch PowerPoint Presentation using your iPad.
My choice – Convert PowerPoint presentation to video formats for Playing it on iPad
I think this is the best way to play PowerPoint presentation on iPad. Many PowerPoint to video converters provide the smart feature to convert PowerPoint presentation to iPad supported video formats (.m4v, .mp4, and .mov) that retain all the features of the original PowerPoint files like animations, transitions, audios, and video clips.
Acoolsoft PPT to Video Pro is such a converter that you can convert your presentation to .mp4 or .mov video for iPad. It also enables users to transfer presentations to HD videos that let you have a good experience to play PowerPoint on iPad clearly.
I like this “loseless” way to help me view my presentation on iPad. It displays the presentation on iPad as the same as the original file, and you will like it too!
Change PowerPoint to PDF files
iPad is a superior platform to read PDF files in a tablet-style format. Changing PowerPoint presentation to PDF files may be a nice way to view it. Apple iPad supports a native way to view PDF as an attachment via Mail application.
Besides, there are many free PowerPoint to PDF converters online to change PowerPoint to PDF files, such as
http://www.freepdfconvert.com/, http://www.pdfonline.com/, and Anypdftools PowerPoint to PDF converter. However, if there are many animations, audios and video in your presentation, it would not be a good way. All the animations and transitions will disappear, not to mention the audio and video clips.
Convert PowerPoint slideshow to pictures
iPad is equipped with a slideshow photo viewer, then converting your PowerPoint slideshow to pictures is another way to view it on iPad. The most common supported image formats by iPad are .jpg, .bmp, .gif, and .png. The following steps let you save your slideshow as pictures:
- 1. Open up your PowerPoint slideshow.
- 2. Export the slides using File > Save As...
- 3. At the pop-up, select the 'Save as type", and choose "*.jpg".
- 4. When PowerPoint asks whether you want to export all slides, choose "Every Slide". Your slides are now exported. PowerPoint will tell you where the stills have been stored. By default, they are named "Slide x.JPG"
However, this way also has the same limitations as the PDF way, no animations, no transitions, and no sound and video clips.
View PowerPoint presentations via presentation sharing sites on iPad
The lack of Flash support is an obstacle for many presentations sharing websites that use Adobe’s technology for multimedia support to show the presentation on iPad, but there are some sites features compatibility for the iPad, such as authorSTREAM.com and DocStoc.com.
Take authorSTREAM.com for example, it is a free web-based platform that offers the new edition for PowerPoint presentation sharing service compatible with iPad. for sharing PowerPoint presentations．
For viewing your PowerPoint slide show on iPad, you can upload your PowerPoint slide show on authorSTREAM.com. When you open the URL provided by authorStream on iPad, you can view your presentation normally that has been converted to the iPad compatible format. You can also download your presentations as video, and view them on iPad.
This way is good for presentations that do not include videos and audios files that are larger than 50,000KB. It will retain the animations of the presentation but not all the audios and videos.
All these 4 ways can help you play PowerPoint on iPad, just go and view it for you! If you have any suggestion or know of other reliable and useful ideas to view presentation on iPad, please let me know. :-)