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by care

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My client wants me to add a powerpoint presentation to his website. When you click on the link it is trying to download the presentation to your computer. A box comes up and asks if you want to open it or save it to your computer. What can I do to make the powerpoint presention automatically open?

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by baz_shaw

It sounds like you might have put the powerpoint up in its 'native' form, either as a .ppt or a .pps file. Either way, browsers will see treat this as a file to be downloaded.

What you have to do is, while still working in the Powerpoint program, select FILE/SAVE-AS-WEB-PAGE. When the dialog box opens, click the PUBLISH button and follow the wizard which comes next. There you will have options to set autorun, which slides to show etc. You end up saving it as a .html file.

What you end up with is a folder containing all the pages of the presentation and an html file. You have to put all of this in the same directory on your website.

Recently I came across a much simply and more elegant solution. Macromedia FlashPaper is a component of Macromedia Contribute2 (www.macromedia.com), which essentially will convert any printable document into a .swf Flash file. It loads very quickly and pages can be resized by the viewer. Only limitation is it doesnt autorun, but in my experience powerpoints fed over the web are best driven by the user at their pace. You can see an example of one I made this way by going to www.biosafetyusa.com and clicking on "Introduction" in the nav bar.

Hope this helps.

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