So Zoom released an exciting new feature in Beta, and that is the ability to share your
PowerPoint slides as a virtual background.
And in this tutorial, that is exactly what I am going to show you how to do.
So, jumping to our desktop, the first thing that we want to do is open up our Zoom app
for the desktop.
So, I'm going to type Zoom, and click on the Zoom app to open up that application.
Now, to launch a slide deck as your virtual background, the easiest way to do that is
to simply launch a new meeting.
Now, we are going to join this meeting like we would normally.
So, I'm going to click "Join with Computer Audio" and I can start my video if I like.
Now, I'm going to ahead and do that, and when I share my screen, it's going to have my normal,
whatever I had set up last as my virtual background, so this is a picture I had set
up last time--this is not my house, my house is not this nice!
So, whatever I had set up that will be my virtual background.
Typically, when we go into set up virtual backgrounds it's in that Settings gear wheel,
that we had before, and when we go to Background & Filters, there's all our virtual backgrounds.
And that's where we created in a previous video I showed you yesterday--we added those
here [plus sign, add image/add video].
You won't find that option for that PowerPoint slides.
so, if you are looking for that option there, you're not going to find it there.
Where you are going to find it is in that meeting share screen.
And when you go to share you screen, you're going to click on Advanced.
It's really easy to miss that here.
So, when you click Advanced, you have all of these new options.
Now, again, you need to have the latest updates installed in Zoom for these to appear.
And there's something in Beta right now--PowerPoint as Virtual Background.
Choosing that option, and clicking Share, that's going to open up that Dialog Box, where
you can navigate to where ever your PowerPoint presentation is located.
So I just created this dummy presentation for us to play with here.
And...there's my slides!
Now, it's really cool...you can present over your slides right I am in the corner and what's
really need about this is you can then move yourself around resize this little thumbnail
preview of you and that way you are not blocking, um, anything important on that slide.
It's also a good idea to keep in mind when you are designing a presentation that you
can have this little preview of yourself imposed over your slides so you don't have any important
information where ever you, um, want that preview of yourself.
It is good for accessibility, for hard-of-hearing viewers to have that view of your lips--it
is good to have that view on screen.
Your slides for navigating all of those controls are down here, so you can click that arrow
and click through just like a normal presentation.
But here is the gotcha!
Right now, at the time of this recording, animations for your PowerPoint slides don't
quite work.
I have animations on this slides and...eh...it doesn't really play.
So, like with normal PowerPoint presentations if you have animations, you can click through
and they animate...here, it jumps to the very last or final "state" of the slide.
So, the workaround, is to design your slides differently.
So, the next slides I have here, I have them pieced out.
So, I've broken them out, slide by slide, and I'll show you the PowerPoint deck afterward.
So, if I want to have this same effect, I create separate slides, for each individual
"look."
So, basically, you'll be creating more slides instead of one slide with all the animations
on it.
So, let go ahead and end this presentation and let's jump on over to PowerPoint and I'll
show you how I built that animation sequence.
And here is that same presentation we saw in Zoom in PowerPoint.
So here is that first slide, that second slide, third slide, and there's that fourth slide
that does have some animations on it but there were no animations that were playing in Zoom.
Also notice something interesting, I've changed nothing about this how this presentation was
when I imported it to Zoom.
Notice, I have this slide hidden.
Yet it still showed up in Zoom.
8 slides.
Zoom showed 8 slides.
This one showed up and Zoom did not play any animations.
So, how I got that effect where it did show each individual slide broken up was I created
four individual slides that have no animations, I just broke up each individual one [the image]
to create that effect.
But this slide, with the animations, even though it is hidden, still showed up in Zoom.
So, do keep that in mind if you are importing a presentation, especially if it has hidden content,
It will show up in Zoom.
Just wanted to point that out.