If other people in the meeting are presenting content in the same file, save time, and take turns presenting.

Meeting participants can browse the other pages in the file.

If you're presenting and want to show one or more files while collaborating on a whiteboard, you can switch between shared files and a whiteboard without pausing your presentation.

If you want participants to be able to download the file during the meeting, add the file to the meeting.

Before you begin

This feature is available on our Webex Suite meeting platform. Find out if your meetings use the Webex Suite meeting platform.

You can share the following types of files: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, and .xlsx.

MP4 files and Universal Communications Format (UCF) files aren't supported.

The maximum file size is 100 MB and 200 pages long.

File sharing isn’t available in breakout sessions or in end-to-end encrypted meetings.

1

During a meeting, click Share content .

If the host or cohost turns off content sharing, you can share only when the host or cohost makes you the presenter.

2

Click File > Next.

3

Select a file to upload and click Open.

4

While you’re sharing, you can do the following:

  • Go to the next page and Go to the previous page to navigate to the page that you want to share
  • Type a page number in the box and press Enter to go to that page
  • Zoom in and Zoom out
  • View thumbnails of each page in the file

    To make the thumbnails larger, hover over the bars resize cursor that appear in the area that separates the thumbnails from the content that you're sharing. When your cursor changes to horizontal scale cursor, drag to the right to enlarge the thumbnails.

  • Maximize shared content
5

Click Stop sharing when you finish presenting the file.

If you want to share the same content in the meeting, you don’t need to upload the file again.