Save an Existing Presentation in HTML Format

If you already have a presentation that you want to convert for publication to the Web or your intranet, click Save as HTML (File menu) to start the PowerPoint Internet Assistant. Select options to choose a graphic format, place navigation buttons, add speaker notes to your Web pages, create an index page, and more. If this command does not appear, you need to rerun Setup. For more information, see Add or Remove Components.

When your presentation is converted to HTML format, each presentation slide is turned into an individual HTML page, existing hyperlinks are converted to HTML format, and actions that you assigned by using the Action Settings command (Slide Show menu) are translated into their HTML counterparts. Then, all the necessary files are saved to a new folder that you specify.

Create a text-only version of your Web presentation   To accommodate visitors to your Web site whose browsers might not have the same capabilities for viewing graphics, the PowerPoint Internet Assistant can create a text-only version of your presentation (while simultaneously creating a standard version that includes graphics). When it finishes, it adds an A button (shown to the right of the Web page navigation buttons in the preceding illustration) to the presentation. When clicked, this button launches the text-only version. Want non-PowerPoint users to view your Web presentation as a full-screen presentation?   You can click Save as HTML (File menu) and then select options in the PowerPoint Internet Assistant to make it possible for others to view your presentation as an actual full-screen slide show.

Create a Framed Web Presentation

Use the Framed Slideshow option in the PowerPoint Internet Assistant to create a special type of Web presentation that uses features available only in advanced Web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0. A framed slide show offers more control, displaying components of the presentation and navigation controls in separate frames on the screen:

  The Slide frame contains the slide image itself.

  The Navigation frame contains standard slide navigation controls such as Next Slide and Previous Slide.

  The Notes frame displays any speaker notes for the associated slide/Web page.

  The Outline frame displays the outline for the entire presentation. You can click headings to jump to the associated slide/Web page.

  The Outline Controls frame contains Expand and Collapse buttons that control the display in the Outline frame.