Posted in: Apple, Microsoft or Windows, Tech Tips, Virtual Meetings

Microsoft added a simple but handy feature to PowerPoint (with a business Microsoft 365 subscription) that allows you to start sharing a presentation from within PowerPoint. Until now, you started in Teams and chose to share the screen that had the presentation open. Now, when you are in a Teams meeting, you can switch to your open PowerPoint presentation and “push” it into an active Teams meeting. The feature is the same in both Windows and MacOS. Here’s how it works:

• Join a Teams meeting or call. Be sure to join a Microsoft Teams meeting before clicking the Present in Teams button in PowerPoint (otherwise you will get a pop-up messaging asking you to join a meeting).
• Open your presentation in PowerPoint.
• Click Present in Teams in the top right corner.
• Your presentation will appear in the Teams meeting for you and everyone else in the meeting.

Be sure to have the latest Microsoft teams desktop app installed. Important: the presentation must be saved on OneDrive for Business or SharePoint.