What

The Internet Assistant for Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95 is a no-charge add-in that provides users with the ability to easily convert design templates, clip art images, digitized photographs, textures, and formatted text in your PowerPoint slides into rich HTML pages for publishing to the Web. Your presentations can be seen by anyone using one of the popular Web browsers.

How

With HTML support, users of the PowerPoint presentation graphics program will now be able to:

• Leverage knowledge of PowerPoint for creating Web pages: Users of PowerPoint already know enough to create rich documents for the Internet. All you need is the Internet Assistant to convert your presentation file into a set of linked HTML documents, ready for publishing to the Web. You get two versions of each slide, one graphic and one text. The text version is useful for Web browsers that can't view graphics, and it's faster to flip through the text version of slides. The graphic version maintains the color scheme and appearance of your original presentation.
• Navigate with Image Map Support: Image Map support enables flexible online navigation by registering Interactive Settings saved in a PowerPoint for Windows 95 files. Presenters can easily jump from one slide to another or to a related Web page. Just use Interactive Settings when you create your slides in PowerPoint for Windows 95 to define links. No coding is involved - the Internet Assistant automatically creates the image maps.
• Apply your corporate design to your HTML pages: Advanced users can customize the text and graphic templates (.TLP) so that PowerPoint outputs HTML pages that match the other Web pages for your company.

Why

The expectation and demand for exciting, flashy but content intensive Web pages is growing. It is important that the general business user be able to easily create and view files for either the Internet or internal corporate Intranets. With the Internet Assistant for PowerPoint 95, users can create and share compelling information taking advantage of their knowledge of PowerPoint without having to know sophisticated authoring or programming languages, or the complicated code associated with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

When

The Internet Assistant for PowerPoint 95 can be downloaded from the WWW at http:// www.microsoft.com/mspowerpoint under "Free Stuff", and CompuServe (GO "msdesktop", then see the PowerPoint for Windows section).