I preached my Taoist sermon on Sunday and would like to post it BUT

[intheflow]

I did it as a PowerPoint presentation. So I have two questions:

1) Does anyone know how I would go about posting a PowerPoint presentation so you all could see it?

and

2) The "sermon" part is written in the notes of the presentation. One cannot exist without the other because key points would be devoid of context, i.e., the words and images are tightly woven together to form the complete message. How would you suggest I incorporate both into the posting (short of formatting an entire HTML page)?

Maybe it's just too hard a thing to do, but I'd still like to share it with you all somehow. So... :shrug:

[hvn_nbr_2]

1. PowerPoint lets you save as HTML. However...

1) you'd have to do significant editing on the HTML to post it here.

2) When it saves, it creates vast numbers of HTML files--looks like two for each slide plus one for each slide's notes plus many GIFs. So the editing would be even more difficult than it sounded in my paragraph 1.

Also, PowerPoint will let you save to RTF but it looks like it doesn't save the notes.

So these alternatives don't look very attractive.

Maybe you could copy each slide's notes into a new slide, with the new slides interspersed with the real slides, and then save the whole thing as Rich Text. But it would probably be no harder to just copy every slide and every slide's notes to some other format (Word, plain text for Notepad, etc.).

I'm not much of a PowerPoint user. Hopefully, someone will have better ideas than these.

[intheflow]

4. Yikes!

I tried various things as well, to no satifactory avail. I realize now that it's not merely the pictures, but even the slide transitions that illustrated my sermon--fades to nothingness to show being and non-being, for instance.

So I'm working on other solutions than trying to post the file. Thanks for your help! :hi:

[Maat]

2. I'm going to ask my hubby, Mr. Computer-Web-Guru,

about this.

I will post when I have an answer.

[intheflow]

3. Thanks, Maat.

I think it might just be an impossibility. But I have to rewrite this sermon into a prose style over the next few months, so I'll plan on posting it after that.

Of course, if you (or anyoe reading this) would like to see it, PM me and I'll email it to you. It's the slide annimation that I'm most proud of. (Well, the sermon content is okay too. :P )

[wildflower]

5. I know there are Web sites where you can post photos...

like photobucket...maybe there is a site where you could post a Powerpoint file?

-wildflower

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. But even if there is, only people who have PowerPoint could read it. n/t

[wildflower]

7. Good point. Any chance you videotaped the sermon, intheflow? :)

Then maybe you could post video of it on-line...:)

-wildflower

[intheflow]

8. No way!

My church is not exactly technologically hip. I'm lucky my church audiotapes the sermons onto cassettes.

Not that I have a cassette deck anymore... and certainly no way to get the cassette recording onto a cd. And then it would just be the audio anyway, so same problem--taxt without pictures won't make sense.

[wildflower]

9. Maybe you could just give us a little sneak peek...?

What was the main theme of your sermon?

By the way, have I ever talked to you about Feng Shui? I understand that it has some origins in Taoism. I have been interested in FS lately as well.

-wildflower

[Tux]

10. Wrong!

Behold! The power of Open Source! http://openoffice.org OpenOffice can read documents made in MS Office. It even allows a user to export a presentation to PDF. I never tried it but test that and see if the presentation and notes can b made into PDF for all to see.