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I am building a site for a client, and she sent me a power point presentation, that she had had on one of her old sites. Does it make any sense to put a PPT file on a website? You have to have power point in order to view it, correct? And if the customer doesn't then its is just a link to something that they can not see. Seems like a bad idea to me, but what do you think?



-joel
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  • Export to a PDF document and serve that instead on the website.

    PDF is more of an industry standard and is operating system agnostic.

    Dee.
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    • You could convert the PPT to a flv and serve it that way?
  • One method I have used is to save each individual PowerPoint slide as a separate graphic file. I then use a slideshow plugin (or script if it's a non-CMS site) to display the presentation on the site without requiring the user to have any special software to view it.

    Bill
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    • I agree or what you can do is convert ppt into video and then embed it in your website. even this could be a professional way to share information on your website. This way some one visiting your website does not need any special software to see your video/ppt.
  • ^^^^ What Bill said ^^^^
  • It can also be exported as HTML files, however I have never tried this. I guess this is something to try out.

    Andre Foisy
  • You can either convert it to a video or a PDF. There are a number of tools that will allow you to convert the PowerPoint here are a bunch - PowerPoint to Video

    These tools will allow you to convert PowerPoint presentation to video formats, including avi, mpeg, 3gp, mp4, wmv, mov, etc.
  • You can put the PPT file on Web as Flash or video files.

    Check these tools for Converting PowerPoint to Flash or Converting PowerPoint to Video

    Good luck.
  • I like the idea of converting to video, upload it to youtube and link to it from the website. Video marketing is HOT!
  • Great Ideas. Thanks.
  • I agree with you. After visiting others at their homes and finding they do not have powerpoint installed, I will not use it any longer. There are so many other site builders available that one can use. Even a reasonable cost by yahoo. Lots to look at there. BeBiz.com is another reasonable price, and quite different.
  • JoMO, why don't grab a copy of Camtasia and record a professional video out of it.

    You can use the existing PowerPoint presentation, record your audio message with it and even include some special effects, a video of yourself etcetera.
  • You can upload the powerpoint file onto Slideshare.net so that you can embed it in your website as a flash, but the animations, transitions, video clips or audios will not be preserved.
    If you want to preserve all these effects, you can use a professional PowerPoint to video converter like Moyea or Leawo.
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    I am building a site for a client, and she sent me a power point presentation, that she had had on one of her old sites. Does it make any sense to put a PPT file on a website? You have to have power point in order to view it, correct? And if the customer doesn't then its is just a link to something that they can not see. Seems like a bad idea to me, but what do you think?