can I use PowerPoint calendar on my web site

[Wendy]

I have a girl scout website that I am working on, using MS FrontPage 2002.
This may sound like a stupid question, but I just want to be sure. Can I use
a calendar from PowerPoint and put it on my site? Is something Microsoft
allows?

 

[Joseph N]

I have a girl scout website that I am working on, using MS FrontPage 2002.
This may sound like a stupid question, but I just want to be sure. Can I use
a calendar from PowerPoint and put it on my site? Is something Microsoft
allows?

The question isn't whether MS would allow it, but whether your site
visitors could view it. The best thing to do would be to convert the
calendar to HTML. That might be something that FrontPage can do; I
don't use that program, but it probably has the ability to convert from
Office formats. If not, PPT itself can save as HTML.

 

[Sonia]

It's not a stupid question, but I have a few. Will all end users be viewing
your website from computers that have PowerPoint or the Viewer installed? How
dynamic is the information in the calendar?

There are three ways that you could use your calendar on your website:

1. You can import the presentation into your website (File > Import) and then
provide a link to the .PPS or PPT file on one of your existing pages. When
clicked the user can save the presentation to their hard drive or they can open
it. The latter requires that they have PowerPoint or the Viewer.

2. You can save your presentation in PowerPoint to a web page (File > Save as
Web Page) and then import the generated HTML file s and folder into your
website. Once again, you can link to the first file from one of your existing
web pages and the user will be able to see the calendar in their browser.
PowerPoint is not required on the user's system. Any change to the calendar
will require changing it in PowerPoint (to the presentation file) and then
regenerating and re-importing the HTML and then publishing to your web based
site. (I'm assuming that you have a disk-based web where you do the editing.)

3. You can save each slide in your presentation as a JPG or PNG image file and
then insert them in one or more web pages (Insert > Picture > Picture from File
or Insert > Picture > New Photo Gallery). User can view the slides in their
browser. PowerPoint is not required on the user's system. Any change to the
calendar will require changing it in PowerPoint (to the presentation file) and
then re-saving the slides to replace the images on your website, and then
publishing to your web based site.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com