Save and share a PowerPoint presentation to Microsoft SkyDrive

You can save a PowerPoint 2013 presentation to Microsoft SkyDrive to make it easier to access, store, and share your files in the cloud.

 Important    This feature doesn’t support synchronization between SkyDrive and your local drive in Office on a Windows RT PC. However, you can open and save your presentations to your SkyDrive by clicking the File tab, and then clicking the Open and Save tabs.

  1. To set up a free SkyDrive account, you must have a Microsoft account. See Sign up for a Microsoft account.

     Note    If you already have a SkyDrive account, skip to step 2.

  2. Sign into Windows Live with your Microsoft account.

Sign into Windows Live

 Note    If you have never saved to the cloud, In PowerPoint, you’ll start by adding a cloud service, such as SkyDrive, to your list of places. If you have already added SkyDrive as a Place in PowerPoint, go to step 5.

  1. In PowerPoint, click File > Save As > Add a place.

Add SkyDrive as a place

  1. Under Add a place, click SkyDrive.
  2. In PowerPoint, open the presentation that you want to save to SkyDrive.
  3. On the File tab, click Save As.
  4. Under Save As, click <your name’s> SkyDrive.
  5. Select a folder from the Recent Folders list, or click Browse to find a folder on SkyDrive, and then click Open.

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You can also save and share your files in the cloud is by subscribing to an Office 365 SharePoint account. For more information, see the Microsoft Office 365 home page.

 
 
Applies to:
PowerPoint 2013