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Hello,
As you have discovered, PowerPoint does not have the built-in ability to
save presentations as video files or other video formats such as DVD-Video
and, even if it did, there would be significant loss of interactivity
(because DVD-Video and PowerPoint slide show have very different
capabilities in this area) and loss of visual fidelity (DVD-Video
resolution is less than typical computer display resolution and most
television will not render colors the same way that a computer display
will).
However, if the ability save presentations to DVD-Video (even with
unavoidable loss of some interactivity capabilities), directly from within
PowerPoint, is important to you (or anyone else reading this message), or
if there are specific features of PowerPoint slide show distribution that
you would like to see (which might eliminate the need to save presentations
as DVD-Video), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.
IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto
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