Introduction
Social Share is a new add-in for PowerPoint that enables users to share their PowerPoint content on social media sites
such as Twitter and Facebook. This sharing can be done right from within the PowerPoint interface. You can specify how your content should be
shared: as an album, a photo, a photo snip, or as a video. Additionally, you can also create shareable links via OneDrive. Moreover, you can
also track and respond to other social media users who comment, favorite, or interact with content that you share, all from within PowerPoint
itself!
Social Share is part of the Microsoft Garage Project Lab, You can learn more
about Social Share and also download it from their site (link no longer exists).
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Social Share
Installation is easy. Once you run the setup routine, you will find a new Social Share tab in your PowerPoint
Ribbon, as shown in Figure 1, below.
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Figure 1: Social Share tab of the Ribbon
Let's do a small walkthrough of Social Share now:
- Create or open any presentation which you want to share. We opened an existing presentation with only one slide, as shown
in Figure 2, below.
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Figure 2: Slide for sharing
Access the options within the Social Share tab of the Ribbon. These options are described below:
- Post: Clicking this button brings up a drop-down list that provides various ways to share on Facebook, as
shown in Figure 3.
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Figure 3: Post drop-down list
- There are three options within the Post drop-down list, and these are explained below:
- Share Screen Clip as Photo: This option enables you to capture a screen clip of the slide or part of the
slide and post it as a picture on Facebook. You drag an area to select your screen clip. As soon as the screen clip is captured, the
Post on Facebook dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 4: Post on Facebook dialog box
- The area highlighted in red within Figure 4, above lets you add some text about
the screen clip you have captured. Select the Include a link to your slide check-box (highlighted in
blue within Figure 4, above), so that anyone with the link can view the picture. And finally you can
select with whom you want to share - to do that click the drop-down list button shown green within
Figure 4, above. Within the drop-down list that appears, choose from Facebook’s Privacy options, as illustrated in
Figure 5.
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Figure 5: Facebook Privacy options
- Share Slides as Photo Album: With this option you can create a Photo Album presentation, and then share it
on Facebook. This also opens the Post on Facebook dialog box, as previously shown in Figure 4.
- Share Slide as Video: Converts your presentation into a video clip and then shares it on Facebook. This also
opens the Post on Facebook dialog box, as previously shown in Figure 4.
- Tweet: Clicking this button brings up a drop-down list, with just one option, as shown in
Figure 6, and explained thereafter:
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Figure 6: Tweet drop-down list
- Share Screen Clip as Photo: This option enables you to capture a screen clip of the slide or part of the
slide and tweet it as a picture on Twitter. As soon as the screen clip is captured, the Tweet on Twitter dialog box appears, as
shown in Figure 7. The options within the Tweet on Twitter dialog box are similar to the options within the
Post on Facebook dialog box, as previously shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 7: Tweet on Twitter dialog box
- View: Click this button to bring of the Social Activity Task Pane, as shown in
Figure 8. Here you can see all the activities on the posts and the tweets you have shared.
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Figure 8: Social Activity Task Pane
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