Save Your File

Click on File on the main menu.

A drop down menu appears.

Click on Save As... on the drop down menu.

The save dialog box appears.

Select the folder where you want to save the file. On the Save in: field of the dialog, click the down arrow button, choose the drive on which you want to save your file. Then, double-click on the folder name (in this case, the folder in which I want to save the file is called "Fimian's Stuff").

Different lists of drives, then folders, will appear as you click on entries, drilling down through drives and folder structures. You don't need to write each drive and folder name down; next time you open PowerPoint, click on File in the main menu; at the bottom of the drop down menu will appear the names of the last few files you opened and saved using PowerPoint; click on any one to open that file.

On the File name: field of the Save as File dialog, type the name you want to give to your file.

By default, PowerPoint automatically inserts the text you typed as the title of the first page into this field; feel free to over-write any or all of this pseudo-title, giving the file your own unique name. In the example in the graphic below, I would erase the phrase "This is you New Title" and replace it with a name that makes more sense.

Remember: Remember to make sure the the extension .ppt is still attached to the end of your file name when you finish typing it!

You can save many types of fonts as part of your presentation. Saving any specialized fonts with your PowerPoint file is a two-step process.

As demonstrated in Figure 1 below, in the upper-right hand corner of the Save As File.. dialog, click on the Tools tab; on the resulting drop down menu, click on the Save Options... phrase; doing so opens the Save Options dialog, shown below in Figure 2.

Once in the Save Options dialog, look to the bottom, and check the phrase Embed True Type Fonts. Clicking also the phrase Embed All Characters will incorporate the entire font set into the PowerPoint file. Once checked, a check mark and small dot in the radio button next to the phrases will be visible, as in Figure 2.

To save fonts with your file, you'll have to "drill down" through a couple of dialog boxes to be able to check the "save font" setting. You'll only have to do it once, however; once you set it for any given file, the file will remember as you save it in the future that the fonts need to be saved as part of the file. It wont need to be reset ever again.

Some fonts refuse to be imported into PowerPoint files; all you can do in this case is to find an alternate font that looks similar to your first choice.

Click the OK button on the Save Options dialog, as displayed in Figure 1.

Then, click the Save button on the Save As FIle... dialog, as show in Figure 2.

The file will be saved and you will be returned to the slide that you were last working on.