tech: posting PowerPoint on the Web??

Subject: PowerPoint on the Web??
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 01:43 PM

Hi-
The development director at the Women's Center where I volunteer, made up a very nice PowerPoint slide show for our annual fundraising dinner. Now she wants to post the slideshow on our Website. Any suggestion as to how I might do this?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: tech: PowerPoint on the Web??
From: Amos
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 02:29 PM

I believe one of the formats available in PPT is as a self-running slideshow. This file would be uploaded using an FTP client to the appropriate directory on the network. A link is then placed on any web-page pointing to the full path of the file, and when clicked (theoretically) the powerpoint exposition plays itself.

Google will also bring up power point files as themselves in its searches and they can appear with buttons for moving through the slides.

Finally, you can also save it as an Adobe PDF file.


A

Subject: RE: tech: posting PowerPoint on the Web??
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 11 Oct 08 - 10:18 PM

Windows users can download a free Power Point Viewer from the Microsoft Office site.

With the viewer, the .PPT file can be made accessible, the .PPT can be opened in the Viewer directly from the website, or can be saved to the users machine and viewed from there. The viewer can also be used to view PPT files sent as email attachments or wherever else they might pop up.

The preparer can, I believe, save the Power Point slides in a "self-executing" form that people can view without any additional tools; but this requires the Power Point Program "owner" to figure out how to do the proper save-file steps, to put it in the "bundled" format. Essentially, a "run-time" viewer is made part of the file itself. This does make the file an "executable" that may be blocked, or may require a "permission" click with some browser setups.

[Note that the US Department of Defense BANNED THE USE OF POWER POINT a couple of years ago, when a commanding general realized that not even people at DOD are stupid enough to believe that PPT pitches are an efficient method of communication. I share the general's opinion, although there are some people who like them.]

John