How to Save Your PowerPoint Slides As High Resolution Images

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When saving the PowerPoint slides as regular images, you lose quality in both text and visuals and your slides will not look as good as before. This wikiHow will teach you how to reconfigure your PowerPoint settings to always save your slides as a high-resolution image.

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Adjusting Your PowerPoint Settings

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    To do this use the registry editor. Click ⊞ Win + R on your keyboard, and type in regedit the open option. Hit  OK to execute the open command.
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    • Depending on the version of Office that you have installed (and are using), you have to open 14.0 for Microsoft Office version 2010, 15.0 for Microsoft Office version 2013 or 16.0 for Microsoft Office version 2016. Those are the internal version numbers as Microsoft have set them.  This article uses Microsoft Office 2016, opening the 16.0 node or folder.
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    Name this new entry  ExportBitmapResolution  and hit ↵ Enter .
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    Double-click this new entry and set the Base to "Decimal" and set the Value data to "300". Click  OK  to confirm.
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    Click Exit on the file menu and you are done.
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Saving the File

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    Open any presentation in PowerPoint of your choice which you’d like to save as images. Click  File .
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    Click  Save As .
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    Save as type as PNG, JPG, GIF or TIFF format. All of these are image format; it is suggested you select PNG format, since good quality of images can be expected with it, and the format is compatible with many other programs. Click  Save  finally.
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    Choose the slides to save. Once you've selected your save options, you'll be asked to specify whether you want to export to a picture just the current slide or all slides in the presentation.
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