How to Publish a PowerPoint Presentation to Web

By Coca Huang

PowerPoint is a very popular presentation tool for education, business or entertainment. However, it is not easy to publish the presentation to web or deliver it through web. This article will talk about several solutions to this problem and the advantage and disvantage of each solution.

1.Publish the presentation as a ppt or pps file to web

1.1 Create a presentation in PowerPoint

1.2 Save the presentation as a ppt or pps file
file->save as->ppt or pps

1.3 Upload the presentation to a server by a uploader like ftp

1.4 Put a link to this presentation in another webpage

2. Publish the presentation to web as an html

2.1 Create a presentation in PowerPoint

2.2 Save the presentation as a html

file->save as->html

2.3 upload the html presentation to a server by uploader like ftp

3. Publish the presentation to web as flash

3.1 Download a PowerPoint to flash conversion tool PPT2Flash Professional from http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.php?sid=5

3.2 install PPT2Flash on the computer as a PowerPoint a plug-in

3.3 Launch PowerPoint and import the presentation

3.4 Configure the Publish Settings in PPT2Flash

3.5 Add some multimedia content to the presentation with “ Record narration” “import audio” “insert flash” features

3.6 Choose one publish modes from publish to web, publish to Learning Management System (LMS), publish as an EXE, publish via email. in “ Publish” feature

3.7 Convert the presentation to flash

3.8 Upload the flash presentation to web directly or insert it in a webpage then upload the webpage

Advantage and Disvantage

1. 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.

2. advantage and disadvantage of solution 2

Advantage:

Easy to do

Disadvantage:

Animations or multimedia content can not work correctly.

3. 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

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