How do I turn off the active X control?

[Guest]

I am trying to convert my powerpoint presentation to web page (HTML) but when
I open the web page file that I've converted, there is an active X message
that prevents the web page file from opening. I know I can click the "allow
block" function but is there anyway I can deactivate it? Perhaps it is set
when I am working on my file? Cos I am sending this web page to lots of
people and my animations are v simple so I don't know if I can just turn this
off. Pls help, thanks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am trying to convert my powerpoint presentation to web page (HTML) but when
I open the web page file that I've converted, there is an active X message
that prevents the web page file from opening.

And you can see it.
But we can't.
So you'll have to tell us what it says.

Thanks!


I know I can click the "allow

 

[Guest]

Sorry for not giving much details! Basically there are a few messages.
Immediately when I double click to open the web page file, internet explorer
is launched but 2 things come up. A yellow top header and below it, this
message comes up:
"This presentation contains content that your browser may not be able to
show properly. This presentation was optimized for more recent versions of
Microsoft Internet Explorer.

If you would like to proceed anyway, click here."

Once I click "here", the message disappears but nothing happens. I click on
the top yellow banner which says "To help protect your security, internet
explorer has restricted this file from showing active content which could
access your computer. click here for options..."

When I click on it, it gives me 3 options - "allow blocked content", "what's
the risk?" and "Information bar help". When I choose "allow blocked content",
I still don't get to see my presentation, but a security window pops up and
says "Allowing active content such as script and ActiveX controls can be
useful, but active content might also harm your computer. Are you sure you
want to let this file run active content?" I click on "Yes" then finally I am
brought to the web browser and can see my file. But when I click on the slide
show icon on the bottom right of the page, the same yellow banner appears
("To help protect your security, internet explorer has restricted this file
from showing active content which could access your computer. click here for
options...").. there are just so many steps for pple to view my ppt file
which is converted to web page. How can I create a simple ppt file that does
not have all these?? Cos it's quite impossible to teach pple these steps
(some being v computer illiterate and just wants to launch my show to watch)
thus I prefer to save a version of ppt that does not use activeX then. Is
that possible? Thanks for your time!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Sorry for not giving much details!

No problem ... you've more than made up for it this time. Great job!

The problem is basically this: PPT's html works very hard to preserve as many of
PPT's capabilities as it can in the web version. Unfortunately, web browsers and
HTML were never really meant to support all this stuff, so PPT has to push the
limits. Hard.

That means that the HTML is targeted at very recent versions of MSIE and that it may
use technologies like ActiveX that have security risks, meaning that even if you
have MSIE Latest/Greatest, your security settings may be such that the show won't
go, or will only go after you tell the browser "Yes, dear, it's OK. Really. Trust
me." A time or six.

If you need the presentation to be more widely compatible, you may have to create
HTML in some other way. For example, by exporting images and making your own pages
from them. Those will be static pages, no animations, of course, so that's a
drawback if animation plays a big part in your message.

I mentioned our PPT2HTML addin in another reply; it'll certainly enable you to get
more widely compatible web pages from PPT. There are also other options like
converting the PPT to Flash or some other movie format and embedding that in a web
page.

Sigh. Nothing's ever easy, is it?

Basically there are a few messages.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Steve for your comprehensive explanation.. in other words does it
mean that if I use ppt2html, the painfully troublesome activex warnings won't
show? Also, does this mean double work to get the souds to work? I've tried
to email you but not sure if I'm reaching you there. If you don't get my
email, can you pls drop me a note at (e-mail address removed)? Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks, Steve for your comprehensive explanation.. in other words does it
mean that if I use ppt2html, the painfully troublesome activex warnings won't
show? Also, does this mean double work to get the souds to work? I've tried
to email you but not sure if I'm reaching you there. If you don't get my
email, can you pls drop me a note at

obfuscated to frustrate the spammers:

(e-mail address removed)? Thanks!

Sure ... will do.

But a word of advice -- don't post your email address in any public newsgroups w/o
obfuscating it. Mess it up in a way that's obvious to humans but hard for automated
address harvesters to unravel. If we're not allowed to burn spammers at the stake, at
least we can cut off their fuel supply.