Insert Live Websites Into Your Next PowerPoint Presentation

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Insert Live Websites Into Your Next PowerPoint Presentation

Jan 28, 2009 Internet, Software

When sharing PowerPoint presentations, I always take a screen shot of a website if I need to show my audience what it looks like. This is never ideal – the full length of web pages rarely fit inside a screen shot. Fortunately, there’s a tool called LiveWeb, a free PowerPoint Add-in for both Mac and PC that lets you put real-time websites into your PowerPoint presentations.

In short, the add-in turns PowerPoint slides into a scrollable web page. Simply download the appropriate version, double click ‘LiveWeb.ppa’ after extracting the ZIP file (do not select ‘Open’ when you are prompted by your browser – you MUST download the file), and you should have a new menu item called ‘Web Pages’ under ‘Insert’. If it doesn’t work immediately, you will need to enable ‘Macros’ and change the security level to ‘Medium’. These options can be fun under ‘Tools’ on a PC. On a Mac, you will be prompted to ‘Enable Macros’ when double clicking ‘LiveWeb.ppa’ if they are not enabled already.

When selecting this menu option, it will take you through a series of alerts – asking you the URL of the website, if you would like to refresh each time you reload the slide, how big the website should be relative to slide size (I usually select 100%), and where to place the website on the slide.

As a note of caution, be sure to log-in to websites that require authentication (such as Facebook) through your presentation before it actually starts. You have to do this in View Show mode. If you stop the slide show, it will possibly log you out.

There’s a handy FAQ about PowerPoint Add-Ins here.

This is is an oldie but goodie – and I hope it’s new to some of you!

Tags: liveweb, powerpoint, Software, techniques

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Kittens 6 months ago 1 point
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After informing this information from here, I have tried to do it myself. But I have failed to make it successful.

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Frank Polenose 8 months ago 1 point
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I've used this and worked fine - so not sure what arsnic is on about.
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innotek sd 2100 9 months ago 1 point
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I have been learning a lot from your posts, you have really been very informative, keep up the great work.

Matt

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arsnic 1 year ago 1 point
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Have you actually ever tried running this? Because the information you give is WRONG! LiveWeb works great for PC but NOT Mac. It uses ActiveX Control which is not a provided security issue in Mac OSX. Next time if you don't know the software works, don't post.

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John 1 year ago 1 point
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That's odd, because I actually used it for the first time on a Mac G5 tower in my office. Maybe it's an issue with what version of Powerpoint you are using, or maybe even a problem with Intel Macs. Sorry to hear it didn't work out for you. Thanks for pointed out this issue.

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