Whenever your presentation is ready for submission, Finalize or Send a copy of it in record time!

Finalize your presentation (or just the selected slides)

The Finalize feature allows you to remove links from your presentation, refresh it and save a copy of it in a few seconds. You can apply these options to the whole presentation or by selecting any number of pages and choosing the Selected Slides option.

1. Save your PowerPoint file.
2. Go to the UpSlide tab and click Finalize. A pop-up appears.
3. Choose whether you want to save the full presentation or just the selected slides by clicking the corresponding icon.
4. Write the name of the file, where to save it and choose the format (.pdf or .pptx). You can click the little folder icon to browse the saving location.
5. Click on the small arrow inside the pop-up to display additional options:
   1. Tick Update to refresh your presentation before saving it. This will update the divider slides, table of contents, reminder shapes and cross-references.
   2. Tick Remove cross-references links to remove the hyperlinks created with the cross-reference feature. Content remains but can no longer be updated. 
   3. Tick Break Excel Links to remove all the Excel texts, tables and charts links created with UpSlide. Content remains but can no longer be updated. 
   4. Tick Remove notes and comments to delete notes and comments.
6. Press Finalize to save your presentation. Please note it will be saved as a separate file.

Send your presentation (or just the selected slides)

The Send feature allows you to remove links from your presentation, refresh it and send a copy of it by email in a few seconds.

1. Save your PowerPoint file.
2. Go to the UpSlide tab and click Send. A pop-up appears.
3. Choose whether you want to send the full presentation or just the selected slides by clicking the corresponding icon.
4. Write the name of the file and choose the format (.pdf or .pptx).
5. Click on the small arrow inside the pop-up to display additional options:
   1. Tick Update to refresh your presentation before sending it. This will update the divider slides, table of contents, reminder shapes and cross-references.
   2. Tick Remove cross-references links to remove the hyperlinks created with the cross-reference feature. Content remains but can no longer be updated. 
   3. Tick Break Excel Links to remove all the Excel texts, tables and charts links created with UpSlide. Content remains but can no longer be updated. 
6. Press Send. This will open a new email in your default email software with the presentation (or selected slides) attached as a separate file. This feature is compatible with Outlook, Lotus and Outlook Express.

Add documents to your final presentation

If you have any .pdf appendices to add to your final document, you can do so with the Finalize and Send functionalities.

1. Open your PowerPoint document.
2. Click Send or Finalize, then select PDF as the Format. A new dropdown menu will appear.
3. Click Insert PDF and Select one or several documents.
   • The order in which you select the documents to add doesn't matter. They will be added in alphabetical order. You can modify it in the next step.
4. You can modify the order in which your documents will appear in the final version by hovering on each element and clicking the arrows to move them up or down.
   • Keep in mind that your PowerPoint presentation will be the first document to appear
5. If you added a document by accident, click on ... and Delete.
6. Press Ok or Send to finalize the document.