Using your iPhone or iPad for PowerPoint presentations

Do you want to impress your team and your prospects? This is a “wow factor” and so simple to configure and run. Using your iPhone or iPad for PowerPoint presentations is simple, easy, and takes you to the top of the high-tech world.

It has an amazing wow factor because you don’t need any special tech equipment. Also, you don’t need to have any special technology skills or experience.

Here is the equipment you will need:

1. Your iPhone or iPad
2. Your Mac (or PC with iPhoto)
3. A special video cable for iPhone or iPad TV.

The TV video cable is a composite or component video cable that connects to the television usually in the same place where the Xbox or Nintendo is connected. You can get them at any Best Buy, Fry’s, or Apple store.

Some televisions have one or both connections. The most popular is a composite cable and it is the one with red, yellow and white connectors. Just check your TV before buying. You may want to have both as you never know which type you will need when you go to someone else’s house.

Here are some simple steps:

1. Download and save your company’s PowerPoint to your main computer.
2. Open your new PowerPoint presentation and under “FILE” send all the slides to iPhoto. On a Mac, you will create your own folder. On a PC, you can only send each slide. Either way, every PowerPoint slide is now in your photos.
3. Synchronize your iPhone / iPad. Make sure your new iPhoto folder / slides is selected.

Now the PowerPoint is on your iPhone / iPad. You can use it for any presentation as one to one. Just open the photos and start showing the photos / slides.

To use it on a TV, continue with:

1. Plug your composite / component audio TV cable into the color-coded AV ports on your TV. These are usually the game ports on the front, side, or back.
2. Plug the other end into the bottom of your iPhone / iPad.
3. On the TV, select the appropriate AV “input” for the actual port you used.
4. On your iPhone / iPad open “photos” and then the correct folder for your PowerPoint presentation.
5. Start 1^{S t} slide and “start slide show”.

Additional tips:

Before any meeting at home, you may want to change your “Settings” on your iPhone to Airplane mode. This prevents calls, texts or emails from interrupting your program. Also, in General Settings, if you change the automatic lock to never, your iPhone / iPad will not turn off during PowerPoint presentation.

After starting your PowerPoint presentation, you may want to advance one slide and then go back to slide one. This will allow you to turn off the automatic program advance function and will only advance to the next slide as you manually advance it.

One last tip, if you’re low on power, plug the USB end of this audio cable into the power adapter for your iPhone / iPad. That way, it will charge your iPhone / iPad at the same time.

Enjoy and say “Wow” to your prospects!