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How to Publish a PowerPoint Presentation Online

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Want to bring a PowerPoint to web and share with some friends but can't figure out how?
Here are two solutions. The first is to put the presentation on a site directly as a normal PowerPoint PPT or PPS file. The second is to convert the presentation to a web-friendly files like html and flash.

Steps

1. Publish the presentation as a PPT or PPS file to web
   
• Create a presentation in PowerPoint
  
• Save the presentation as a PPT or PPS file
  
• file->save as->PPT or PPS
  
• Upload the presentation to a server by a uploader like ftp
  
• Put a link to this presentation in another webpage
  
2. Publish the presentation to web as a HTML
   
• Create a presentation in PowerPoint
  
• Save the presentation as a HTML
  
• file->save as->HTML
  
• upload the html presentation to a server by uploader like ftp
  
3. Publish the presentation to web as Flash
   
• Download a PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool PPT2Flash Professional from http://www.sameshow.com/download/powerpoint-to-flash-download.html
  
• install PPT2Flash on the computer as a PowerPoint a plug-in
  
• Launch PowerPoint and import the presentation
  
• Configure the Publish Settings in PPT2Flash
  
• Add some multimedia content to the presentation with “ Record narration” “import audio” “insert flash” features
  
• Choose one publish modes from publish to web, publish to Learning Management System (LMS), publish as an EXE, publish via email. in “ Publish” feature
  
• Convert the presentation
  
• Upload the flash presentation to web directly or insert it in a webpage then upload the webpage

Tips

• advantage and disadvantage of solution 1
  
• Advantage:
  
• This solution works well if the presentation has a lot of animations in it.
  
• Disadvantage:
  
• Visitors will need PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer to play the presentation. New animations in new PowerPoint version can not be correctly played in the old PowerPoint version. The linked multimedia may not play.
  
• advantage and disadvantage of solution 2
  
• Advantage:
  
• Easy to do
  
• Disadvantage:
  
• Animations or multimedia content can not work correctly.
  
• advantage and disadvantage of solution 3
  
• Advantage:
  
• Flash has a small file size, greater web capability and accessibility. With the multimedia content preserved, the presentation can be interactive. And flash prevents the presentation from being copied at will.
  
• Disadvantage:
  
• None found at present

Warnings

• There are surely other solutions to this problem.So do not limit yourself to the above figure-out.

Things You'll Need

• PPT2Flash Professional

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