Sometimes it is necessary to put a PowerPoint presentation on the web so others can have access to the slides and the notes information. This How To explains how to do this.

It is written specifically for the county extension offices since their web pages use a Dreamweaver template and must follow certain guidelines.

It was written using PowerPoint 2002 and Dreamweaver 4.

1. Open the PowerPoint presentation you want to convert to HTML.
2. Put the finishing touches on the slides and notes area.
3. From the File menu choose Save as Web Page.
4. Click Publish in the center of the dialog box.
5. In the Publish as Web page dialog box make the following selections:
   • Complete Presentation
   • Display Speaker Notes
6. Click Web Options.
7. Click the Pictures tab.
8. From the drop-down list, choose 640X480.
9. Click OK.
10. Under Browser Support, select the All browsers listed above.
11. Under Publish a copy as, click Browse.
12. In the Publish As dialog box, navigate to the appropriate folder where you want the HTML files to be saved.
• You should save these files in your county web folder, in the proper directory.
13. Change the file name if appropriate.
14. Click OK to accept the location.
15. Click Publish to convert the presentation to HTML.
16. Once published, you will notice two new files/folders.
    • One will be the file you created in step 13.
    • The other will be a folder containing all the needed parts for the PowerPoint presentation to be viewed via the web.
17. You are now ready to link this file from another webpage and upload all the files.
18. Continue with the next section.

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Now that you have published the PowerPoint presentation you need to link to the files you created in the above section.

1. Using your counties template, create a web page.
• This page will eventually link to the published PowerPoint presentation you created in the above section.
• Refer to How To Starting an Extension Web Page from 3rd Tier Template in Dreamweaver 4.
2. Enter the title/text for the presentation.
3. Select this title text and link to the HTML file created in step 16 in the above section.
• Refer to How to Create Links in Dreamweaver 4.
4. Save your document in the appropriate folder.
5. Spell check your document.
6. Test the links to make sure they work.
7. If necessary, link this newly created page to another page on your website.
8. Now you are ready to upload the pages.
9. Continue to the next section.

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Now that you have created the page that links to the PowerPoint presentation you are ready to upload this page and the PowerPoint files.

1. Open your Site Manager and connect to the remote server.
2. On the right side, locate the HTML page you created in step 4 immediately above.
3. Locate the .html file you created in the first section of the this How To.
4. Locate the folder (with a similar name as the .html file) which contains all the pieces of the PowerPoint presentation.
5. Select all 3 of these files.
   • You can Shift Click or Control Click to select all 3 at the same time.
6. If you had to create another page in step 7 above, select this file also.
7. Upload these files to the server.
8. Open Internet Explorer and test these pages to make sure they work and to make sure they look OK.

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