Display PowerPoint on your Desktop
Logic: run a PowerPoint slideshow on your desktop, behind your
icons!
This tutorial shows you how to run a PowerPoint slideshow on your
Desktop. Suggestions are:
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Keep your images small
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Use few animations
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Keep your animations and slide transitions slow
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Save as an mht file (single web page) if possible
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Remember you will be using html animations which are not as good
as a PowerPoint slideshow.
In this example, I have gone for a single image per slide and only
used slide transitions. I usually set transitions to about 20 seconds.
![3 slides](../images/desktop/desktop_a_01.jpg)
I start with three slides.
![transitions](../images/desktop/desktop_a_02.jpg)
Slide transition is Fade Smoothly, set to 10 seconds
automatically.
![set up show](../images/desktop/desktop_a_03.jpg)
Then set up your slideshow to run automatically, and
Loop until Escape. You don't want it to stop or wait for a mouse click
to run.
![save as web page](../images/desktop/desktop_a_04.jpg)
Now go to File| Save as Web Page...
![publish](../images/desktop/desktop_a_05.jpg)
Then hit the Publish button. We will configure web
options here.
![web options](../images/desktop/desktop_a_06.jpg)
Click Web Options.
![general tab](../images/desktop/desktop_a_07.jpg)
We get rid of navigation controls (don't need them). You
can also go to the Browsers tab and set it to your version of Internet
Explorer.
![properties](../images/desktop/desktop_a_08.jpg)
Save your presentation as a mht web file. Then go to
your Desktop and right click on it.. Click Properties.
![customize desktop](../images/desktop/desktop_a_09.jpg)
Click Customize Desktop.
![new file](../images/desktop/desktop_a_10.jpg)
Click the Web tab and add a new web page.
![browse](../images/desktop/desktop_a_11.jpg)
Browse to your saved mht file and select it.
![desktop](../images/desktop/desktop_a_12.jpg)
The web page now runs as a Desktop slideshow.
![finished desktop](../images/desktop/desktop_a_13.jpg)
You can move it or resize it. Now, you can also do this
via the slideshow screensaver option, but it runs as a screensaver. This
way, it is as a background to your Desktop and will animate. Cool!
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