Share your PowerPoint presentations with Microsoft Social Share
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Microsoft Social Share is a new tool that allows us to share clippings or photos of a presentation to Facebook or Twitter easily and quickly This application comes thanks to Microsoft Garage, a division that has been providing many tools for all platforms.
With Microsoft Social Share we can easily share clippings and photos of our presentation to social networks. On Twitter it only allows us to share an image, but on Facebook the application allows us to create an album with all the slides and even a video.
And once published on social networks, we can obtain the comments it receives in a section on the right (as shown in the image above).
How Microsoft Social Share works
Once we download the plugin and install it, PowerPoint will open and ask us (in a section on the right) to connect to the program with our Twitter and Facebook profiles.
Once done, we can see that on the top right we have a tab called “Social Share”. In this part there are two options available:
- Facebook: In this part the plugin allows us to share a clipping of the screen, all the slides as an album, or a video.
- Twitter: Meanwhile, here we can only choose to share a screenshot.
Testing Twitter, when we create a clipping we will see a new window where you can include a message and share it. An important detail is that if we click on “Include a link to your slides” (and giving the application permission to enter our OneDrive account), we can add a link so that users can share the photo to other people.
This works the same on Facebook, the only difference is that you can choose the degree of privacy (friends, friends of friends, public, just me) that you want the content you're going to share to have . In case of sharing an album we can add a name and description, and if what we will publish in a video, Microsoft Social Share lets us add a message and see how it would look like before sending it to social networks.
Microsoft Social Share is a totally free plugin, and can be downloaded from its official page.
