If you want to separately use files or objects from a PowerPoint presentation, such as videos, photos, or sounds, you can extract them by converting the presentation to a “zipped” file folder. Note, however, that you can't extract PDFs or .dotx files.
The following procedure works on Windows, but not on macOS.
Tip: We recommend that you make a copy of your presentation first, and then do the following procedure on the copy. This ensures that your original presentation is preserved.
Before you do this procedure, make sure File Explorer is set so that it shows file names with file extensions.
Make file extensions visible in File Explorer
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In File Explorer, select View on the toolbar.
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In Windows 11, choose Show, or in Windows 10 in the Show/Hide group, ensure that File name extensions is selected.
Open a presentation as a folder
To open a presentation as a folder, use Explorer to navigate to the folder containing the presentation that you want, and then do the following:
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Click the presentation that you want, right-click it, and then click Rename.
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Change the file extension (.pptx) to .zip. Press Enter to set the name, then click Yes in the Rename dialog box.
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Double-click the zipped file to open an Explorer window for the content files. The zipped file contains several folders, many of which contain information such as XML code or properties.
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Open the ,ppt folder. Objects such as videos, sound files, or pictures are found in the ppt folder, in the media subfolder.
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Double-click the media subfolder to open it.
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Select file you want to extract, copy it, then navigate to a suitable folder elsewhere in your system, and paste the file there.
Restore the original presentation
To restore the original presentation, repeat steps 1 and 2 in the procedure above, this time changing the file extension from .zip to .pptx.