When you click the File menu in PowerPoint 365 for Mac, you see several options. In this tutorial, we explore two of these options (see Figure 1):
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Support for Office 2016 for Mac ended on October 13, 2020. Upgrade to Microsoft 365 to work anywhere from any device and continue to receive support. If you want your document to be read but not edited, you can save it as a PDF file. When you do, the PDF will retain your formatting and often be a smaller file than the original. At this point, simply click on Save As with your mouse, then select the file format and save location. The faster keyboard shortcut. As you can see on the screenshot to the right above, pressing the Option key to reveal the Save As command has also revealed the direct keyboard shortcut for Save As on Mac, no mouse required. Hi - I'm Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts. Working with Files and Folders (Mac) Problems with Apple’s sandbox requirements and Mac Office 2016 and up with VBA code. Get path of Special folder. Check if File or Directory Exists. Make Directory if it not exist. Copy Folder in Microsoft Office for the Mac with VBA. Use VBA Kill to delete files. Use VBA to Delete all files in folder.
- Save (highlighted in red within Figure 1)
- Save As (highlighted in green within Figure 1)
Figure 1: Save and Save As options
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Save
The Save option works differently depending upon whether you are working with a new presentation, or a presentation that has already been saved earlier:
- When you choose the File | Save option for a hitherto unsaved presentation, you will see the dialog box shown in Figure 2, below with the Recent Folders tab selected, highlighted in red. Notice the area highlighted in orange, where you can choose a cloud location.
Figure 2: Saving a file for the first time- Select the On my Mac option (highlighted in blue within Figure 2, above) to bring up the macOS default Save dialog box, shown in Figure 3, below. Now, you can choose to save in one of your local folders.
Figure 3: macOS default Save dialog box
Navigate to your save location, and provide a name for your presentation. You can also opt to save as different file types that PowerPoint supports.The default File save type is PPTX (PowerPoint Presentation) but there are several other formats you can choose from, as you can see from the drop-down list of File Formats, as shown in Figure 4, below.
Figure 4:File formats you can save to
Save As
Where Is Save As Button
When you select the File | Save option for a file that has been earlier saved, you'll not be presented with any dialog box, PowerPoint just overwrites your old file with any new changes made since the last save.
Note: Options for choosing a location, providing a file name and selecting a file type are provided only when you save the newly created presentation for the first time. Hereafter, the Save option just saves all changes made since the presentation was last saved. If you want to save as a new file, choose the Save As option that we discuss next.
Save As On Mac Word
When you choose the File | Save As option for a presentation, it doesn’t matter if the file has been previously saved or not, you always end up summoning the Save As dialog box that you saw in Figure 3, previously on this page.