Publishing PowerPoint Presentation

       You can create a PowerPoint presentation and provide world wide access to your presentation by publishing it on the Internet. Publishing is the process of creating a copy of your presentation on another computer on the network or on a Web server, so that anyone on that network may view the presentation. You can publish a presentation and achieve different objectives:

• Publish several copies of the same PowerPoint presentation to several different Web servers.
• Publish a PowerPoint presentation to create a separate copy on the Web that can be modified and updated without affecting the original presentation.
• Publish only a part of your presentation to be available to all on the Web. For example, you can publish only 5 out of 10 slides in a presentation.
• Publish the presentation in customized way to be browser compatible. For example one copy of your presentation can be best suited to be viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer and another copy can be best suited to be viewed in Netscape Navigator.
• Publish a customized version of the presentation where certain elements, such as animations or clip art objects or sound media clips appear only in the Web version of your presentation.
  

Certain elements automatically appear when you publish a PowerPoint presentation to the Web. These elements are:

• Navigation frame that outlines the PowerPoint presentation
• Control for displaying and hiding the outline of the presentation
• Control for displaying and hiding the Notes pane
• Frame for displaying the slides
• Control for displaying a full-screen slide show and hiding the rest of the browser control options

You can view how your published PowerPoint presentation looks like before actually publishing it. To preview a presentation Web page:

•  Click the File à Web Page Preview option.

You can publish a PowerPoint presentation to the Web by specifying the location of the Web server where you want to publish the presentation. To publish a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation:

•  Select /Open the PowerPoint presentation that you want to publish.

•  Click the File à Save as Web Page option to open the Save As dialog box.

•  Specify the location of the computer where you want to publish the presentation in the Save in drop-down menu.

•  Enter the name of the Web Page in the File name textbox. This name specifies the name of the Web page into which the presentation will be published.

•  Select the Web Page or Web Archive option in the Save as type drop-down menu.

•  Click the Change Title button to open the Set Page Title dialog box and enter the name that you want should appear on the title bar of the Web page. Click the Ok button.

•  Click the Publish button to open the Publish as Web Page dialog box as shown in Figure:

Publish as Web Page

             

This figure shows the Publish as Web Page dialog box that allows you to customize the Web page that you are publishing.

•  Specify the options to customize the presentation being published.

•  Specify the whether you want to publish the complete presentation or just a part of it under the Publish what option

•  Specify whether or not you want the speaker notes to be published with the presentation using the Display speaker notes checkbox.

•  Specify the browser for which you want to optimize the presentation under Browser support option.

•  Click the Publish button to publish the presentation as a Web page.

After you publish a presentation, a copy of the presentation is created on the Web server and the original copy of your presentation is retained on your computer.