PowerPoint Import

You can import your PowerPoint files (.pptx, .ppt, .odp) directly to Seidat, where you can edit, present and share them.

• All elements (pictures, text, shapes, etc.) will be imported separately. All elements can be edited. Text elements are imported both in text and image mode.

• If you want to bring your presentations from Google Slides, just download the presentation to your device as .ppt/.pptx and then import it to Seidat.

Important notes

• Embedded Excel tables and charts will be imported as images.

• The presentation will be as close to the original, but small changes can happen during the import.

• Seidat does not currently support groping elements, which is why you should ungroup all grouped elements in PowerPoint before the import if you want them to appear as separate elements in Seidat.

• Seidat does not currently support vertical alignment of text, which means that if your text is vertically aligned to the middle in PowerPoint, it will be aligned to the top of the text box in Seidat.

How to import

Press the "Import PowerPoint" -button on the dashboard. The import window will open.

From the import window, you can choose the file you wish to import and other settings:

1. What slides do you wish to import from the presentation? Select all if you wish to import the whole presentation or type in the required pages.

2. Mode of the import:

   1. Editable slides if you wish to have all elements from your ppt as separate editable elements. We suggest checking the text styles in your brand settings first to make sure the presentation will convert smoothly. More about PowerPoint import & text styles here.

   2. Editable slides with text as images if you wish to have all elements from your ppt as separate elements but the text as images (text elements can be later transferred into editable text elements by double-clicking the element).

   3. Slides as screenshots if you wish to have the whole page as one image.

3. The background color of the presentation (fills out the slide with solid color, will not show if the slide is filled with a picture) can be chosen with "Slides as screenshots"

4. You must also add tags to the imported presentation. Read more about tags here.

Once you press the "Import" -button, the upload will start. The time it takes to upload the presentation may vary based on your internet connection speed. If you cancel during the upload, the import will be canceled.

You will receive a notification once the import is ready. If the import fails, you will receive a notification and be required to try again.

Imported presentation

Once the presentation is imported to Seidat, you can play, edit, and share the imported presentation like any normal Seidat presentation. All images are uploaded into the media bank. If a presentation with the same name is imported, the images will end up in the same folder.

Editing imported presentation

To edit the presentation, press the "edit presentation button." If you imported the PowerPoint "as elements," you can edit the pages as if they were created in Seidat.

• The slides are all automatically placed in one row in the imported presentation, but you can move them around freely. We suggest that you utilize Seidat's matrix structure for better-organized presentations.

• If the header is written in the header field in PowerPoint, the slide titles will be automatically set. If the page had no title in PowerPoint, it would be named Slide 1, Slide 2, etc.

• If the picture in PowerPoint fills the whole content area, the image in Seidat will be set as a background image.