Powerpoints web capability

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I just wanted to make sure that I understand this correctly. You can make a
website exclusively with powerpoint but, it will appear as a slide show only.
So, you cannot put multiple slides together, to show on one page with a
scrollbar, to create the actual look and feel of a webpage. The only other
way is to get them as metafiles and insert them into html. Can someone tell
me if this is correct? Finnally does anyone know what program I would use to
make it a website instead of a presentation on the web
 
For many reasons PowerPoint is a poor choice for creating a website. There are
a good number of products specifically designed for creating websites including
FrontPage (Microsoft) and Dreamweaver (Macromedia). Do a google search to find
others.
 
I just wanted to make sure that I understand this correctly. You can make a
website exclusively with powerpoint
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In a *very* limited way, yes, sort of. It'd be more accurate to say that you
can make web-based presentations with PowerPoint but not really full web sites.
So, you cannot put multiple slides together, to show on one page with a
scrollbar, to create the actual look and feel of a webpage. The only other
way is to get them as metafiles and insert them into html.
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Not metafiles ... they're not a web standard. JPGs, GIFs or (if you're not
targeting ancient browsers) PNGs.
Can someone tell
me if this is correct? Finnally does anyone know what program I would use to
make it a website instead of a presentation on the web
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It sounds like we're talking about two different things here. To me, a web site
is a collection of individual web pages, usually hyperlinked together; it
sounds like you want to create a single web page with all of your PPT slides
from a single presentation on it, one after another.

In other words, not a site but a single page that might be part of a site.

If you only need to do this a time or two, the best bet is to choose File, Save
As from PPT; choose PNG or JPG in Files of Type; give it a name and save. Let
it export all the slides in the presentation.

It'll create a series of numbered files. From there, it'd be mostly cut 'n
paste to turn it into html:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

<center>
<img src="myfile1.jpg">
<br>
<img src="myfile2.jpg">
<br>
<img src="myfile3.jpg">
<br>
</center>

</body>
</html>

edit the "myfilex.jpg" stuff to match the names PPT gave your exported files and
you're in business.

If you need to do this routinely and want an automatic tool, the next release of
our PPT2HTML addin will create single-page HTML files from PPT presentations.
http://ppt2html.pptools.com

Give me a yell at steve atsign pptools dot com if you decide to try the demo.
There are a few as-yet undocumented tricks.

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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