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Microsoft Power Point & HTML 2

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smokeydog

smokeydog

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Jan 3, 2001
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Ok, I have converted my Power Point to HTML and uploaded all html files to my web site. Is there any source or tutorial that tells me what to do now? Nothing seems to work properly. It seems like I could have uploaded the pages as gifs and created one easier. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 
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What are you expecting? You can't save as HTML, for instance, and have it play like a show. What is it that you want for your final product? A web page or playable show?
techsupportgirl@home.com
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I assumed, obviously in error, that I would have a playable Power Point show on my website.
 
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Hang tight, smokey. I'm trying to get some info for you, maybe something close to what you want. What version?
techsupportgirl@home.com
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I have 2000 at home & 97 at work. We have a lot of presentations at work that we tour around and show. Someone told me that you could put PowerPoint on a website. Stupid me volunteered to do it and save our travel budget! LOL
 
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In 2000, in the file menu there is a feature that is Save as Web Page. It's pretty slick, in that it will create your HTML file for you and you can use it as a slideshow still. Hope that helps.

V
 
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I initally followed Vman's suggestion in that I have my converted files on my web site, but I can't get it to function properly.
 
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Can you be a little more specific as to how it isn't working properly? Is there an error? Is the page not displaying correctly? Let us know.

V
 
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Smokey, I posted my response before I saw VMan's, so I don't want you to think I was opposed to VMan's suggestion. VMan, I could be wrong, but isn't HTML a web PAGE? Smokey wants people to click on a presentation and have it play via their web browser, is that not right?

I've never done it myself, but I thought that saving as html was for a page, not a presentation object as we know it.
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Dreamboat,
HTML is what web pages are made of. The Save As Web Page feature does put it in a HTML format, but additionally, it inserts some Javascript functionality to make the presentation viewable from your web browser. So, whether you just take the html file on a network share, or you put a link to it on a web site, it'll be portable through the web browser.

It still gives you the ability to look at it in a outline format or full screen too.

Hope that makes sense.
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I just want to be clear that you aren't getting just one file when you do this Save As Web Page. It creates your HTML file, but then also create a sub directory named similarly to your Saved As file name, wherever you chose to create it, with the Java Script, some images, cascading style sheets, and it looks like some frame pages in it.
 
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See! Thanks VMan. What I suspect is that people don't realize that they have to have a place to store the files--a server, right? You can't just save it as HTML, you've got to load all that stuff onto the server and that's what I don't think people realize. I know just enough not to bother trying because I don't have a server (host).
techsupportgirl@home.com
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Well, I'd say you don't exactly have to have a server. That was just an example for running a web site or looking for a centralized place to store it. I think alternatively you could build your presentation and put it on floppy (if it fits), or Zip Disk or even burn it to CD. Then you can just open the html file via browser wherever you are. The code is dynamic enough that you can move the one html file and the sub directory anywhere and view it still. It does not have to be in a web server. If you want an example let me know and I'll email it to you off of the forum.
 
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Smokey, I've used PowerPoint on my web. It works, but... if you run it in a browser without the Vector Graphics add on you might have trouble seeing all of your neat art work. I also uploaded the PowerPoint file to my ftp site after running Pack and Go. Now I can download and play that using Microsoft's Free PowerPoint viewer at my clients location. That works the best. I've created my PP slide shows with Office 2K and using the viewer, I get just what I expect on almost any Windows system even though they do not have PowerPoint installed.

Pngsetup.exe (the file that unpacks a Pack and Go presentation) is a 16-bit program that can run under Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT. Pngsetup.exe does not support folder names with extended characters.

I usually download the PowerPoint file and the Pngsetup.exe to a directory on a clients system (something like c:\ppview ). Then run the Pngsetup.exe. Make a shortcut on the desktop for the viewer. When you open the viewer you will see your file, select it and let the show begin.

The viewer works better then the HTML and if you go to all that trouble, then think of adding sound.

Jim
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Thanks Jim, this sounds promising. One of my problems probably is that my initial test PP is too complex. It is 16 pages of flying icons and music. This created about a zillion files to upload to my GeoCities test site. I may just go back to the drawing board or let the folks who get paid the big bucks do it.
 
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smokeydog,
I think sierraonsite has an excellent point here. The freebee powerpoint viewer could be just what you need to make your presentation portable. I've never used powerpoint with flashy stuff, so I wouldn't know whether that was the problem with your Save As or not. I do believe, and hopefully somebody can back me up on this, but a free powerpoint viewer is available on the Office CD. It is the Microsoft version I think, but it might help you out too.
 
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The other day I watched a powerpoint presentation over the web

The idea behind this that you upload a presentation to a webserver, which converts it to a multimedia streaming session.
Then your clients connect to this server to see the ppresentation (not just plain html).

The webserver in this case is
Regards
S. van Els
SAvanEls@cq-link.sr
 
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I have to ask: Are you using Netscape to view the presentation on the Internet? If so, that's probably why it's not working. PowerPoint HTML files need to be viewed in Internet Explorer; they don't work in Netscape.

Linda Adams
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