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Hi, I have done a search here, but I have had no luck finding an answer to this one so here goes.? Is there a way to post a slideshow such as Power Point?on Groups.io??
Thanks,
Maureen

Maureen,

Is there a way to post a slideshow such as Power Point on Groups.io?

There isn't a native slideshow viewer, one that operates within the context of Groups.io's web pages. Opening a photo in an Album and then using the left and right arrows (at the edge of the photos, not on the keyboard) to move through the album is a little bit like a manual slideshow.

That might be an interesting suggestion for beta: add slideshow controls to the viewing options for an album - allowing automatic presentation of the album's content.

You could store a PowerPoint file in the group's Files section. But as far as I know there aren't any browsers which will open that file format in-browser (unlike PDF and most image types), so the members would have to download the file and run PowerPoint (or a 3rd-party viewer) to view it.

Shal


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On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 10:09 PM, Maureen wrote:

Is there a way to post a slideshow such as Power Point?on Groups.io??

As Shal noted, the only thing you can do with a native PowerPoint file is upload/download it from the files area.

That said, basic PowerPoint-like behavior can be achieved by a series of linked wiki pages. I have a bunch of PowerPoint files that I hope to convert to that, someday. I did one of them, as best I could, and it's proven to be a tedious/frustrating process. It's entirely possible that "someday" may never come.

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Bruce?
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I was initially having difficulties uploading it, but it turned out to be internet issues on my part rather than Groups.io.? Saving it in Files rather than in Photos seems to serve our purposes for now.??
Thanks!

I thought possibly saving a *.pps rather than .?.ppt file might play directly in a browser. ?No joy, at least not with Chrome. However I tried creating a google SLIDES doc rather than PowerPoint, and of course if you post a link it opens in Chrome (didn’t try MSIE.). But the user needs to know to hit a play drop down, otherwise s/he’s just editing the slides. ?Maybe there’s a way to automate playing/full screen/slideshow/etc. via google slides?

There’s a few different apps to create page flipping of a PDF (which opens directly in Chrome) by converting it to html. Example:

Probably the easiest way is to export all the PowerPoint slides as JPEGs or PNGs and upload them to a photo album, where the user can page through them. You would lose animations, sound, presenter's notes, etc...but by applying an appropriate naming convention and uploading the files in sequence the sort order would be maintained.

I don't think I'll be doing the wiki thing again.

Bruce
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Good morning from cool sunny Arizona.
If your Powerpoint does not require sound, "save" it as a PDF.
Works great. Let Acrobat do the work.
Good luck.
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