How to Connect Your PowerPoint to OneDrive / The Cloud
May 12, 2021Saving your presentation to a desktop is usually fine, but what if we need to access it from our work computer? Or unexpectedly, have to make changes while at a friend's house?
Ensuring your PowerPoint presentation is accessible from anywhere with internet access will help you not worry about where and when you need to work on it. This article will walk you through how to save your presentation to OneDrive.
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Let’s say I finished making my slideshow and want to save it. There are plenty of ways to store your presentation. You can store them on your PC or external devices such as a hard drive or memory stick.
However, a more convenient way to store your files using the cloud exists. This is called cloud storage. Cloud storage is a storage space available to store data on remote servers accessed from the cloud or the internet.
And one good example of cloud storage is Microsoft OneDrive. But first, we must make an account to link our presentations to this cloud storage.
To register, you can search Microsoft OneDrive on the internet to get to the website for signing up, or you can directly go there from your PowerPoint Window by clicking File then Save As.
From there, select OneDrive and either sign up if you have no account or sign in if you already have one. For those with no accounts, click on sign up, and a new internet tab will immediately pop up for you to sign up for a OneDrive account. Signing up is free and only needs your email and verification.
Once signed in, you can access OneDrive and store your files here. This is what OneDrive’s interface looks like.
Going back to our slide, let’s go ahead and sign in with our new account. Click on Sign In, and a pop-up window will ask for your email or phone number and password. Input the needed details and automatically connect your file to OneDrive.
As you can see, the OneDrive icon has changed, and clicking it allows you to browse the contents of your OneDrive account and save files for storage. Let’s save our file here outside of the folders.
That’s it. You have just connected your presentation to OneDrive and have stored your file in the cloud. Let’s go to our OneDrive page to see our saved file.
As you can see, the file is up on our OneDrive account, and we can select and open it anywhere just by accessing it via the Internet.
We can choose to click our file, which will send us to a new internet tab we can use to make some edits and do presentations without the need for the existing PowerPoint software.
We can also right-click on our file and select Download to get a copy of our slides anywhere and on any device.
For more spectacular tips on utilizing PowerPoint, follow us on YouTube or read about How to Use Slide Master and How to Add Pop-Up Text to your presentations.
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