Re: POWERPOINT AND INDEX.HTM Jan 23

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From: FrustratedJohn (FrustratedJohn_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:13:04 -0800

Sadly I have been defeated, despte all the help and advice from good people
like Sonia, Steve and Kathy.

As I wave the white flag, I turn reluctantly to Dreamweaver (but I would so
much have preferred to present the website in Powerpoint).

Thank you for listening to my ramblings.

Have a wonderful rest of 2005.

John

"FrustratedJohn" wrote:

> Steve, you are far too generous with your time.
>
> I am engaged on other matters at the moment, but I will take your advice at
> the first opportunity.
>
> I so want to make it work, because I find Powerpoint such a friendly
> environment in which to work (even with my miniscule knowledge compared to
> yours).
>
> I hope 2005 is treating you kindly to date.
>
> John
>
> "Steve Rindsberg" wrote:
>
> > In article <3DBA0D3F-E096-40BA-B480-6406A6B8DA54@microsoft.com>,
> > FrustratedJohn wrote:
> > > I now discover, Steve, that you are a Powerpoint Guru.
> >
> > Snookered another one, have I. Heh heh heh. NOW I have you in my power,
> > little one.
> >
> > > I take your point (your powerful point) about the web having gone much
> > > farther than T-B-L imagined, but it needed that first step before we could
> > > all follow in his trail.
> > >
> > > Al Gore and his Rhythm Kings. Am I right to think it was Dan Quayle on
> > > triangle (or was he playing the potatoe)?
> >
> > Stubbing his potatoes (or putting them, and the foot they rode in on, into his
> > mouth?)
> >
> > > I am a Brit, by the way ... hence my promotion of Tim Berners Lee, who seems
> > > largely unknown among the surfers I come across.
> >
> > I suppose one needs to be of a certain age, prehistoric in interneTime, to
> > appreciate his contribution. Those of us who know that punch cards are not
> > necessarily the things you get when you join the Lunch Bunch Club at Starbucks
> > ... WE understand you, never fear.
> >
> > > Incidentally, I have still not managed to get my Powerpoint display up and
> > > running as a website. I am about to make a nuisance of myself with Kathy
> > > Jacobs, to see if she can help me soplve the myserty of the index.htm
> >
> > I think I've got that one worked out.
> >
> > When you create HTML from a PPT presentation, it generally creates a single
> > HTML file of a name you specify and a folder full of support files. You need
> > to upload both to the web server.
> >
> > Now, suppose you upload to a folder accessible from the web as:
> >
> > www.your_domain.co.uk/your_folder
> >
> > If I plug just that into my browser, the web server will look for an html file
> > by some default name, usually index.html, within that folder.
> >
> > If instead I happen to know that you've saved your presentation as
> > your_pres.html, I can do this:
> >
> > www.your_domain.co.uk/your_folder/your_pres.html
> >
> > and up it should come.
> >
> > Or you could save it as index.html and it'd work by default (not recommended,
> > though, as you can only have one index.html file in your folder.
> >
> > What you might want to do is create an index.html file in an html editor and
> > include in it links to your various presentations:
> >
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <h1>All my presentations in one spot</h1>
> > <h3>Wouldn't Tim B-L be proud?</h3>
> > <p>Presentation 1</p>
> > <p>Presentation 2</p>
> > <p>and so on ...</p>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> > (it was
> > > on her website that I noticed you as being a man who knows what you are
> > > talking about).
> > >
> > > Kindest regards
> > >
> > > Still-frustrated John
> > >
> > > "FrustratedJohn" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I feel embarrassed to come here with such a basic question, but I am the
> > > > puppet of frustration.
> > > >
> > > > I have an Applemac (G5, operating system 10.3). I have put together a
> > > > presentation in Powerpoint that I am trying to upload for the web. I use
> > > > Fetch as my ftp uploader, which has always worked perfectly in the past.
> > > >
> > > > Every time I attempt to open the webpage I see a black page and get the
> > > > message 'Open your default.htm file'
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody out there know how I identity which file to make my
> > index.htm?
> > > > I have tried just about every combination I can think of, starting with
> > the
> > > > obvious .... slide0001.htm
> > > >
> > > > Can you help end my frustration? Thank you for your attention
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > > johnzedwards@btinternet.com
> > >
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> > PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> > PPTools: www.pptools.com
> > ================================================
> >
> >
> >

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