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Saving as a Web Page

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One really cool thing you can do with your PowerPoint files is to post them on the web. The process with which the program is able to keep the integrity of the show and change it to html code it amazing. The shows look great online. You can bring your presentation with you by just having Internet Access. You can also post your presentations so students and parents can have access to them anytime, anywhere. To saver your show as a web page follow these steps: Open up your presentation. Go to File on the menu bar and choose Save As A Web Page. The Save As dialog box will open.

Click on the down arrow next to Save in and point to the area of your web server where you have access. Click on the Publish button. The Publish as a Web Page dialog box will open. This is where you will make selections customizing how your presentation will be displayed. Under Publish What complete presentation if you want to publish all or choose the slides you want to publish. Leave the check next to display speaker notes if you want them to be available. Under Browser Support make one of the choices below. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later ( high fidelity) if you want your presentation to be viewed only in Internet Explorer. This takes full advantage of the presentation and allows you to view in full screen. If you know your audience will be using Internet Explorer then this is the best choice to make. ( It will however work in the Latest version of Netscape. You just can’t do the full screen.) This method of saving looks the best.



Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape 3.0 or later- If some of your audience will be using Netscape (older versions than the newest one), then you should make this your choice. All browsers listed above- This will create larger files but if your audience is using IE or Netscape and file size is not an issue then you can choose this type. Down under file name type in the path where you want to save (on your web server) or click on the Browse button to browse to it. Click on the Web Options button. The web options dialog box opens. Click on the drop down next to the Colors box and choose the colors you want for the text with and background of the Outline. Make your choice of options under the tabs presented in the Web Options dialog box. (I typically leave the defaults set). Click on OK. Click on Publish.

Once you save this it created two files. If you called your show summerday then after saving the file you would have created a folder called summerday_files and an htm file called summerday.htm. If you are using FrontPage you can import these files into your web. Create a link to the summerday.htm file. When your visitors click on this link it will open up the PowerPoint show.

Your show should open up in a browser to show you what it would look like.


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