If you have to deal with presentations a lot, you might need to embed one PowerPoint in another.

Embedding a PowerPoint file with iSpring will take you just 2 simple steps. They are:

  1. Publish your presentation
  2. Insert your presentation as a Web object

How to publish a presentation to HTML5

Convert the presentation you want to embed into another presentation to an HTML5 format with iSpring.

  1. Click Publish on the iSpring toolbar.


  2. Make sure you have HTML5 in the Output Options on the My Computer tab. Adjust other settings like Player and Quality, if needed. 

  3. Click Publish to convert your PowerPoint presentation to HTML5.


    Done! You now can insert your presentation as a web object. 

How to insert a presentation as a Web object

To insert a local HTML file:

  1. Click the Web Object button on the iSpring Suite toolbar.

  2. Select Local path from the dropdown menu on the upper left. 



  3. Browse for a file on your computer—it should be a web page. Open index.html.



  4. Mark the checkbox Include all files and subfolders.



  5. Next, choose how your web object will be displayed.
    1. Display in slide
      The web object will appear on the slide. You can change its size and position.

    2. Display in a new browser window
      The web object will be opened in a new browser window. Additionally, you can configure dimensions of the browser window or make a web object show in full-screen mode.



  6. Specify when the web object will appear in the Show after field. The default delay is 0 seconds, which means the video clip will appear as soon as the slide is opened.



  7. Click OK to insert the web object into your slide.



Note:

Make sure you've saved the inserted HTML file in UTF-8 encoding. If the encoding is different, all the file texts might appear as unreadable characters.

Let's outline how to save a Word file as a web page in UTF-8 encoding.  

  1. Click on the File tab on the Microsoft Word toolbar.



  2. In the opened window, click Options.



  3. In the Word Options window, click Advanced.



  4. Next, scroll the page down to the General section and click on the Web Options button.



  5. In the Web Options window, select the Encoding tab. Next, in the Save this document as menu, select Unicode (UTF-8). Finally, click OK.



  6. In the Word Options window, click the OK button again.



  7. Now let's save the Word document as a web page. Click on the File tab on the Microsoft Word toolbar.



  8. In the opened menu, click Save as.



  9. Select the destination folder on your computer, enter the filename and select the file type: Web Page or Web Page, Filtered. Finally, click Save.



  10. The HTML file is saved to your computer. Now you can insert it as a web object into your iSpring Suite course.