How To Set Up A Zoom Presentation

Use zoom for PowerPoint to bring your presentation to life

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If you'd like to brand your presentations more dynamic and heady, endeavor using zoom for PowerPoint.

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To add together a zoom, go to Insert > Zoom.

To summarize the unabridged presentation on one slide, choose Summary Zoom

To testify selected slides only, choose Slide Zoom

To evidence a single department only, choose Department Zoom

Shows different types of Zooms that can be selected when you go to Insert > Zoom: Summary Zoom, Slide Zoom, and Section Zoom.

Overview

When y'all create a zoom in PowerPoint, you can jump to and from specific slides, sections, and portions of your presentation in an social club you determine while y'all're presenting.

Zoom for PowerPoint is merely available on Windows—in Microsoft 365 and PowerPoint 2022.

Summary zoom

A summary zoom is similar a landing page where you can see the pieces of your presentation all at once. When you're presenting, y'all can use the zoom to go from one place in your presentation to another in any order y'all like. You can get creative, skip alee, or revisit pieces of your slide bear witness without interrupting the flow of your presentation.

Summary zoom is now supported for Microsoft 365 subscribers in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 for Mac start with version sixteen.19.18110915.

Become to Insert > Zoom.
Select Summary Zoom.
The Insert Summary Zoom dialog box opens.

Select slides you want to include in your summary zoom. These become the starting time slides of your summary zoom sections. To learn more about using sections in PowerPoint, encounter Organize your PowerPoint slides into sections.

If you lot already accept sections in your presentation, the starting time slide of each department is preselected by default. If you lot don't desire to include certain sections in your zoom, deselect them. Then, if you want PowerPoint to get rid of whatever sections y'all didn't include in your summary zoom, articulate the check box next to Keep unused sections in your presentation. Don't worry—the slides in the sections you're discarding will even so be part of your presentation.
One time you've selected all the slides you lot want to use for your summary zoom, select Insert. Your summary zoom is created, and it appears as a new slide only earlier the first slide you included in your summary zoom.

Once you've created a summary zoom, you lot might notwithstanding desire to add or remove sections of your presentation. If you've made changes since first making your summary zoom that you lot desire to capture, you don't accept to start from scratch—just update your summary zoom.

Select your zoom, and then select the Format tab on the ribbon.
Select Edit Summary, choose the sections you desire to have in your summary zoom, and and then select Update.

Note:You won't be able to add or remove sections from your presentation in this view, just from your summary zoom.

Slide zoom

A slide zoom can help yous make your presentation more dynamic, allowing yous to navigate freely between slides in any gild you lot choose without interrupting the flow of your presentation. They're a good choice for shorter presentations without lots of sections, simply you can use slide zooms for lots of unlike presentation scenarios.

Slide zooms help you drill downwardly into multiple pieces of information while feeling as though you're staying on the same canvas.

Go to Insert > Zoom.
Select Slide Zoom.
The Slide Zoom dialog box opens. Select the slides you want to use in your slide zoom.
Once you lot've selected all the slides you want to employ, select Insert. Your slide zoom is created.

Tip:If you desire to, you tin create a slide zoom chop-chop by just selecting the slide you desire from the thumbnail pane and dragging it onto the slide yous'd like to have your slide zoom on. This way, you can create slide zooms and change them quickly, and arrange them however you like simply past clicking and dragging.

Your slide zoom by default will exist a preview thumbnail paradigm of the slide, but you can choose a new epitome from your PC or the spider web to represent the section or slide yous'll be going to.

Select your zoom, and so select the Format tab on the ribbon.
Select Change Image to cull a new picture from the web or your PC to use instead of the thumbnail.
Cull or search the web for the image you want. When y'all've selected the image yous want, select Insert.

Yous can also choose various looks for your zooms from Zoom Styles—you tin can change the border, add visual furnishings, or pick from whatever of the edge and effect combinations in the gallery.

Shows different Zoom Styles and effects you can choose in the Format tab in PowerPoint.

Section zoom

A department zoom is a link to a section already in your presentation. Y'all can use them to become dorsum to sections you desire to actually emphasize, or to highlight how certain pieces of your presentation connect. To learn more than about using sections in PowerPoint, see Organize your PowerPoint slides into sections.

Become to Insert > Zoom.
Select Section Zoom.
Select the section you desire to use as a section zoom.
Select Insert. Your department zoom will be created.

Tip:If you lot want to, yous can create a section zoom speedily by simply selecting the section proper noun you lot want in the thumbnail pane and dragging information technology onto the slide y'all'd like to accept a section zoom on.

Your section zoom by default will be a preview thumbnail image of the slide, but you can cull a new image from your PC or the web to represent the section or slide you'll be going to.

Select your zoom, and so select the Format tab on the ribbon.
Select Change Image to choose a new pic from the spider web or your PC to apply instead of the thumbnail.
Choose or search the spider web for the epitome you want. When you've selected the image you lot desire, select Insert.

Y'all can also cull various looks for your zooms from Zoom Styles—you tin can change the edge, add together visual effects, or selection from any of the edge and result combinations in the gallery.

Shows different Zoom Styles and effects you can choose in the Format tab in PowerPoint.

Make your zooms stand out with more zoom options

Zoom for PowerPoint truly lights up when y'all make it your own. Select the Format tab of the ribbon to get to the Zoom Tools, which you tin choose to create just the look and feel y'all're going for when you present.

Select your zoom, then select the Format tab on the ribbon.
If you want to return to the zoom slide after viewing sections or slides in your summary, slide, or section zoom, brand certain the Return to Zoom bank check box is selected. If you want to move on to the side by side slide later viewing office of your zoom, uncheck it.

(If you lot're working with a summary zoom or a section zoom, you'll return to the zoom slide by default when you're presenting afterwards going to the department. If you lot're using a slide zoom, you'll motion on to the next slide by default after viewing your slide zoom.)

Some other way you can change the look of your zoom is past choosing to adopt the groundwork of the slide where your zoom lives to brand the zoom well-nigh indistinguishable from the main sheet while you present. Select Zoom Groundwork to brand your summary, section, or slide zooms blend in to their dwelling slide.

Select your zoom, so select the Format tab on the ribbon.
In the Zoom Styles group, select Zoom Background. The zoom volition adopt the background of the home slide.

By default, your zooms will use the zoom transition when yous present, which is what helps brand the zooms feel so lively. However, if you don't want to use the zoom transition, or if you desire to change the elapsing of the transition, yous tin do so.

Select your zoom, and then select the Format tab on the ribbon.
In the Zoom Options group, make certain the box next to Zoom Transition is checked if you want to apply the zoom transition when presenting your zoom.

If you don't want to utilise the zoom transition when presenting, uncheck the box next to Zoom Transition.
To change the timing of the zoom transition, employ the upwardly and down arrows adjacent to the Elapsing indicator to alter how long the zoom transition lasts.

Requirements

Come across the following table for details on the minimum version numbers required in PowerPoint to create or play zoom links.

PowerPoint version	What you can practice with Zoom
PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, version 1607 or newer PowerPoint 2022	Create and play zoom
PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 for Mac, version 16.9 or newer PowerPoint 2022 for Mac	Play zoom
PowerPoint 2022 PowerPoint 2022 for Mac PowerPoint 2022 PowerPoint for Mac 2022 PowerPoint 2010 PowerPoint 2007	Play zoom every bit hyperlinks with no zooming transition Back to zoom navigation isn't supported.
PowerPoint for the web	None
PowerPoint for Android PowerPoint for iOS PowerPoint Mobile for Windows	Play zoom

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