PowerPoint and Adobe PageMill

[Willy]

In the prior office version on Mac (OS 9), i saved my ppt files as HTML.
Then I established a link from my web page file to the index file withing the
HTML file. When I clicked my link, I saw a "Click Here to Start
Presentation" and an option to download the presentation source. Now I am
using Office 2003 and OSX. I have saved my ppt files as web page and get the
file name icon and a folder that contains all of the other files. I linked
my web page to the filename.htm . However, when I click the link, I get the
page with a bunch of red question marks. Also, when this problem is resolved
and the presentation is successfully viewed, is there an option to download
the presentation (ppt) file?

Thanks

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

PageMill puts red question marks for things it doesn't understand, and since
PageMill is a pretty old program, it doesn't understand a lot. I avoid using
PageMill for anything that is created in anything other than PageMill. I
even recently created a fairly simple site using HTML, and it confused
PageMill, so I never open it in PageMill.

If the PowerPoint file that you converted to HTML works in your browser,
then it should be OK on the Web; just avoid opening it in PageMill.

According to "Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files" from the PPT
FAQ:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00189.htm

"How the browser opens links to PPT or PPS files is a client (ie, local
user's browser/operating system) setting, not something you can control as a
web page or presentation author."

--David

David Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/