News!! Showing A Powerpoint Presentation Inwards Your Weblog Every Mo An Embedded Slideshow

You tin give the axe present content from a PowerPoint presentation within your blog, past times converting it to a Google Docs document together with and then using the "embed" code that Docs provide.

This article shows you lot how to seat a PowerPoint file into Google Docs, together with and then purpose the "Publish" characteristic from Docs to present the presentation right within your weblog - inwards slideshow mode.

For many presentations, this is currently my favourite agency of displaying them, because it gives a rattling nice-looking display.   Here's an example of a presentation displayed similar this:

Follow these steps to embed a presentation inwards your blog

1  Upload the PowerPoint file to Google Docs, making certain that the "Convert documents, presentations, together with spreadsheets to the corresponding Google Docs formats"... pick is ticked.

2  Once it's uploaded, select Return to Google Docs

3  Open the presentation (by clicking on it)

4  Click on the Share push clitoris inwards the transcend RIGHT corner of the Presentation Editor, together with select Publish / Embed.  
(Note:  for this option, you lot must live within the Presentation Editor. You know you lot are inwards the right house if the Share push clitoris is on the far right of the screen.   If it's on the left, together with then you lot are peradventure going to part the document, only this won't teach you lot the embedding code).

5  Click the Publish Document button.

6  Choose your options.   These include:

• a actor size (I similar Medium for presentations that are going within posts), 
• how fast to advance slides, 
• whether to start the presentation as presently every bit the actor loads (I don't similar this - readers may desire fourth dimension to direct keep inwards the residuum of the article first)
• what to produce when the last slide is reached.

7  Copy the HTML that is provided.

8  Return to Blogger, together with paste inwards the HTML code, inwards whatsoever of the ways that 3rd political party HTML tin give the axe live added.

What your visitors see

People who read your weblog straight through a web-browser run across the get-go slide of the presentation, amongst controls (play, back, forward) inwards the bottom left corner.   When they click the Play icon, the slideshow plays, together with at the halt it shows a summary slide together with gives the code that your reader tin give the axe purpose to embed the same slideshow themselves.

I'm nevertheless investigating what people who run across your weblog inwards a feed reader (eg Google Reader) or via an electronic mail subscription see:  it's possible that the embedded slideshow won't truly display inwards these tools.

Are you lot reading this inwards a feed-reader (other than Google Reader)?  
I'd live rattling grateful if you lot could teach out a comment nearly how the slideshow looks for you.

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