Embed Your PowerPoint Inline As A Slideshow In Your Website Design

There are times when you want your website visitors to download a pdf, but if you use PowerPoint and you are changing it to a pdf to be used as a download for your website there is an alternative. You might want to keep it as a PowerPoint presentation and using Google Docs, you can upload and publish the presentation to your website. Doing this allows you to embed the PowerPoint inline with your design. Usually the reason for embedding your PowerPoint as a slideshow “in line with your website design” is,

it will provide a much better user experience, keeping the visitor in the flow of your design.

If you are unsure how to embed your powerpoint into your design, the steps are easy. Basically you will need a Google Account and you will need to add Google Docs to your account. To keep things simple here is a bullet list of how it is done:

  1. You need a Google account. It is free if you do not have one.
  2. You will need Google Docs. If the docs icon is not visible in your Google Account, you will need to add it. To add Google Docs to your existing Google account click, “try something new”. There will be a list of services, find Docs. Click to add Google Docs to your account.
  3. Next there will be a new icon in your account, click the docs icon and you will be taken to the Google docs application.
  4. Click upload to get you PowerPoint into Google Docs.
  5. Click Publish.
  6. Get the Code and embed in your blog or website.
  7. The slide show below will show you the final 3 steps on: Uploading, Publishing and Embedng the PowerPoint into your blog or website. This slide show is an example of a PowerPoint embedded in my blog.

 

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Gary,

This is really neat – I hadn’t seen this before, although I do use Google Docs all the time.

Question – is this pulling right from Google Docs, or does the code actually sit on my site?

Thanks for the insight.

 

Thanks for posting! I really enjoyed the report. I’ve already bookmark

this article.

 

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