Export a map to PowerPoint

The Microsoft PowerPoint Export command can be used to:

When you begin the PowerPoint presentation export, MindManager will prompt you for some Export Format Settings. MindManager's default slide layouts are optimized to eliminate duplicating topics on multiple slides. You can choose to have multi-level topics represented as PowerPoint objects instead of bulleted text by default.

From the export dialog, you can choose to preview and format your slides first, or perform the export immediately using the automatic topic layouts. You can use the format settings for individual slides to adjust the layout of text or export topics as PowerPoint objects.

When exporting the map to single slide, a new presentation is created with one slide that displays the map as a group of PowerPoint objects.

On export, MindManager communicates directly with PowerPoint instructing it to build a presentation. You can edit the resulting presentation in PowerPoint. But remember, those changes will not be reflected in the MindManager map, and if you re-export the map these changes will be lost.

Create a new presentation from a map

  1. Open the map.

  2. Only visible topics are exported. This means you can apply a filter to hide topics you don't want to include in the presentation.

  1. Do one of the following:

Mindjet Connect - You can save the presentation to a workspace by choosing Workspaces as the Save in location, then selecting a workspace.

  1. The default name for the presentation will be the map name, but you can change this and the location where it is saved. Click Save.

  2. A dialog appears with the global presentation settings. Check the options you want to use.

  3. Recommended  Click Format Slides to preview the slides and change their formatting in the Format Microsoft PowerPoint Slides task pane.

  1. Click Export.

A new PowerPoint presentation is created. You can Open the presentation to check it, Open Folder where it was saved or Close to return to MindManager.

Add topics to an existing presentation

  1. In PowerPoint, open the presentation that you want to add the slides to. Select the slide where you want the new slides inserted (they are inserted before this slide). If no presentation is opened, a new presentation will be created.

  2. Switch back to MindManager. Optional - select the topics you want to export.

  3. Right-click, click Send to, then click Microsoft PowerPoint.

  4. A dialog appears with the PowerPoint Export settings. Check the options you want to use.

  5. Recommended Click Format Slides to preview the slides and change their formatting in the Format PowerPoint Slides task pane.

  6.  Click Export.

The topics will be exported and added to the current PowerPoint presentation.

Export the map as a single slide

  1. Open the map.

  2. Only visible topics are exported. This means you can apply a filter to hide topics you don't want to include in the presentation.

  1. On the Export tab, in the Microsoft Office Export group, click the Export to PowerPoint arrow, then click Export as a Microsoft PowerPoint slide.

Mindjet Connect - You can save the presentation to a workspace by choosing Workspaces as the Save in location, then selecting a workspace.

  1. The default name for the presentation will be the map name, but you can change this and the location where it is saved. Click Save.

A new PowerPoint presentation is created with a single slide containing the map represented by PowerPoint objects. You can Open the presentation to check it, Open Folder where it was saved or Close to return to MindManager.

Read these hints for more information about exporting topics as PowerPoint objects.