About publishing a presentation to the Web

You can use the Web to give others access to your presentation by publishing it to a Web server or another computer that is accessible to those you want to view the presentation with a Web browser. When you publish a presentation, a copy of it is created in a file location you choose. You can publish from a presentation that is in .ppt format or that is saved as a Web page or Web archive.

When you publish your presentation to the Web or save it as a Web page, your presentation automatically includes the following:

  A navigation frame, which is the outline of the presentation.

  A slide frame.

  A control for showing or hiding the outline of the presentation.

  A control for showing or hiding the notes pane.

  A full-screen viewing option, which hides the browser controls and is similar to slide show view in Microsoft PowerPoint. If you have custom shows in your presentation, they can be viewed only in full-screen mode.

Publish a presentation when you want to do any of the following:

• Make available on the Web a copy of a presentation that you can edit and update (you can keep your original work in the PowerPoint presentation [.ppt] format)
• Publish copies of the same presentation to different Web locations
• Make a subset of your presentation available (for example, a custom show, a single slide, or a range of slides)
• Customize the presentation to view best in a particular browser or browser version, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape Navigator 3.0
• Choose which elements, such as speaker notes, animations, and navigation buttons, will appear in the Web version of the presentation