Zoom: How to share a PowerPoint presentation

This article assumes that you are using presentation software such as PowerPoint to share your presentation and you are in a Zoom session that allows you to share your screen. Note that Zoom has no abililty to upload slides, so you will need to share your screen.

Steps

Step 1: Open the slides you intend to share in PowerPoint or your preferred presentation software.

Step 2: In Zoom, select Share Screen at the bottom. If you don't see it, look under the More button, and if you still don't see it then your host likely needs to give you permission to share your screen.

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Step 3: You'll be presentated with the option of sharing your whole screen or just an application. You likely want to share just your PowerPoint application, so select your PowerPoint application and then select the Share button at the bottom right. If your presentation has sound, select Share sound at the bottom left before sharing your screen.

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Step 4: Now that you're sharing your screen you can change slides and everyone will see what slide you're on. Note that if you have multiple copies of a presentation program such as PowerPoint open and switch to a different one your participants will continue to see the first one you shared--if you need to do this you should share your full screen and not just a single presentation application.

Step 5: When you're finished sharing your screen select Stop Share at the top to stop sharing.