With Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 you can save your presentation into any of the file types listed in the table below.
| Save As file type |
Extension |
Use to save |
| PowerPoint Presentation |
.pptx |
A Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation, which is an XML-enabled file format, by default. |
| PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Presentation | .pptm | A presentation that contains Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) (Visual Basic for Applications (VBA): A macro-language version of Microsoft Visual Basic that is used to program Microsoft Windows-based applications and is included with several Microsoft programs.) code. |
| PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation | .ppt | A presentation that you can open in PowerPoint 97 to Office PowerPoint 2003. |
| PDF Document Format | .pdf | Publish as PDF or XPS: A PostScript-based electronic file format developed by Adobe Systems that preserves document formatting and enables file sharing. You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Enable support for other file formats, such as PDF and XPS. |
| XPS Document Format | .xps | Publish as PDF or XPS: A new Microsoft electronic paper format for exchanging documents in their final form. You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Enable support for other file formats, such as PDF and XPS. |
| PowerPoint Design Templates | .potx | A presentation as a template that you can use to format future presentations. |
| PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Design Template | .potm | A template that includes pre-approved macros that you can add to a template to be used in a presentation. |
| PowerPoint 97-2003 Design Template | .pot | A template that you can open in PowerPoint 97 to Office PowerPoint 2003. |
| Office Theme | .thmx | A style sheet that includes definitions of a color theme, font theme, and effect theme. |
| PowerPoint Show | .pps; .ppsx | A presentation that always opens in Slide Show view rather than in Normal view. Note If you are unable to open a .pps file, see I am unable to open a .pps file. |
| PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Show | .ppsm | A slide show that includes pre-approved macros that you can run from within a slide show. |
| PowerPoint 97-2003 Show | .ppt | A slide show that you can open in PowerPoint 97 to Office PowerPoint 2003. |
| PowerPoint Add-In | .ppam | An add-in that stores custom commands, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code, and specialized features such as an add-in. |
| PowerPoint 97-2003 Add-In | .ppa | An add-in that you can open in PowerPoint 97 to Office PowerPoint 2003. |
| Single File Web Page | .mht; .mhtml | A Web page as a single file with an .htm file and all supporting files, such as images, sound files, cascading style sheets, scripts, and more. Good for sending a presentation in e-mail |
| Web Page | .htm; .html | A Web page as a folder with an .htm file and all supporting files, such as images, sound files, cascading style sheets, scripts, and more. Good for posting on a site or editing with Microsoft Office FrontPage or another HTML editor. |
| GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) |
.gif |
A slide as a graphic for use on Web pages. The GIF file format is limited to supporting 256 colors, and therefore it is more effective for scanned images such as illustrations rather than color photographs. GIF can also be good for line drawings, black and white images, and small text that is only a few pixels high. GIF supports animation and transparent backgrounds. |
| JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) FileFormat |
.jpg |
A slide as a graphic for use on Web pages. The JPEG file format supports 16 million colors and is best suited for photographs and complex graphics. |
| PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Format |
.png |
A slide as a graphic for use on Web pages. PNG was approved as a standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to replace GIF. PNG does not support animation as GIF does, and some older browsers do not support this file format. |
| TIFF (Tag Image File Format) | .tif | A slide as a graphic for use on Web pages. TIFF is the best file format for storing bit-mapped images on personal computers. TIFF graphics can be any resolution, and they can be black and white, gray-scaled, or color. |
| Device Independent Bitmap | .bmp | A slide as a graphic for use on Web pages.
A bitmap is a representation, consisting of rows and columns of dots, of a graphics image in computer memory. The value of each dot (whether it is filled in or not) is stored in one or more bits of data. |
| Windows Metafile | .wmf | A slide as a 16-bit graphic (for use with Microsoft Windows 3.x and later). |
| Enhanced Windows Metafile |
.emf |
A slide as a 32-bit graphic (for use with Microsoft Windows 95 and later). |
| Outline/RTF | .rtf | A presentation outline as a text-only document tha provides smaller file sizes and the ability to share macro-free files with others who may not have the same version of PowerPoint or the operating system that you have. Any text in the notes pane is not saved with this file format. |
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