Last updated on 2012-04-16, by Dupont

Five Thoughts on Sharing PowerPoint Presentations Publicly

One of the best advantages of Internet is the spirit of free sharing. In the past we used to write down our experiences and post on our websites. Now we can simple register an account on blog site like Blogger, WordPress and then we can post our writings on there. With the popularity of YouTube, people can easily share their videos online too.

However, the famous PowerPoint file is still Internet-unfriendly because most of the websites don’t allow upload PowerPoint files directly. That’s why we gathered these 5 methods to publish your PowerPoint to web and hope you can try them when you want to share your amazing PowerPoint slideshow to web.

1. PowerPoint to Slideshare

Slideshare is the most famous among all PowerPoint sharing websites, which allows you to upload your presentations in PPT, PPS, PPTX or PPSX formats to SlideShare. Your PowerPoint will be shown on Slideshare as image slideshows so the animations, multimedia files embedded in the presentation will be removed.

2. PowerPoint to Google Docs

There two kinds of Microsoft alternatives: software and online application. OpenOffice.org is the representative for the first kind and Google Docs for the second. Google Docs offers nearly all functions that Microsoft Office does, only to be free. You can create a presentation on Google Docs and download as PPTX compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint. Or you can upload PowerPoint to Google Docs for viewing and sharing.

3. PowerPoint to PDF

PDF has much wider support than PowerPoint, because it doesn’t embed sound, animations, transitions and video clips in the file. By saving PowerPoint as PDF, we can preserve the format and content (text, picture and hyperlink) intact and make PowerPoint accessible to web. You can upload PowerPoint to Google Docs and then download as PDF or directly convert PowerPoint to PDF with the free PowerPoint to PDF converter.

4. PowerPoint4Web converter

To publish PowerPoint online with all the animations, transitions, embedded sound and video clips, the best choice is to convert PowerPoint to video format. A video format can store all the information that PowerPoint file has, except for the original mouse operating. Moyea PPT4Web Converter is specially designed to convert PowerPoint to web-friendly video formats like FLV, MP4, MOV, 3GP, 3G2. Then you can upload the converted video to video sharing websites like YouTube with much more people.

5. PowerPoint to Web player

You can also publish PowerPoint on your own website. The advantage is you can add flash video player, watermark and advertisement on your PowerPoint. Tools you need: Moyea PPT4Web Converter and Moyea Web Player. Here is the guide on how to publish PowerPoint on your own website step by step.

Hope these 5 methods can help you to publish your own PowerPoint presentations online. Do you have any other ideas on publish PowerPoint to web?