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• Try OpenOffice.org (Score:1)

  by jbisbee (2452)

  Try opening the presentation with the OpenOffice.org presentation component and save as HTML there. I have no idea if this will work, but it's worth a try.

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  • Re:Try OpenOffice.org (Score:2)

    by djberg96 (2603)

    That worked! I never used OpenOffice before. I think I'm a convert.

    Thanks!
• PowerPoint Versions (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  What version of PowerPoint? What options do you have set in Mozilla?

  I've created HTML versions of PowerPoint presentations before, up to PP2000 I believe. They change the HTML output every so often; the original conversion (PP95? PP97?) rendered a set of JPEGs with just enough HTML to link the images together. A newer version of PowerPoint used the same kind of CSS hackery that Word uses to generate more native HTML in a frameset to mimic the outline/slide/notes view.

  I wouldn't be surprised if PP XP
  • Re:PowerPoint Versions (Score:2)

    by djberg96 (2603)

    PP 2000. While porting to OpenOffice and back worked, it's not as nice looking. If there's an option I can set within Mozilla that'll let me view the original HTML, please let me know! I messed around in preferences, but didn't see anything that stood out. However, IANAME (I Am Not A Mozilla Expert).
    • Re:PowerPoint Versions (Score:2)

      by ziggy (25)

      Ctrl+U shows source in Mozilla for X-Windows. Probably the same key combination in Windows.
      • Re:PowerPoint Versions (Score:2)

        by djberg96 (2603)

        Oops. I meant, "view the html originally created by PowerPoint within the browser, correctly", not "view the source". Sorry for the confusion.
• HTML cleanup tools (Score:1)

  by bart (450)

  Well, you appear to have found a solution in case where you do have the original Office file. But in cases where you don't:

  There are some HTML cleanup tools floating around. Some of them are specifically intended to clean up the "HTML" as produced by MS-Word, or at least are reported to work well for these; but it might work well with the output of any MS-Office program.

  • HTML Tidy [w3.org] (There are also some nice GUI frontends for this program available)
  • Cleaning up Word HTML files [bersoft.com]
• Try PDF (Score:2)

  by Odud (1047)

  If you have access to Acrobat you could try converting it to PDF. The output looks fine and should be viewable by most people.