You are giving a PowerPoint Presentation on "How to Google Effectively" to a live audience and there’s a slide in your PowerPoint deck where you need to demonstrate certain Google tricks inside the web browser.
So you minimize the slideshow, open your browser, type google.com and wait for the website to load. Once you are done with the Google demo, you bring the PPT slideshow to the foreground and resume the presentation.
There are way too many steps involved so wouldn’t it be great if you could simply embed the Google website into your slideshow without breaking the flow of presentation?
Enter LiveWeb – it’s a free add-in for PowerPoint (all versions) that lets you display web pages live in your PowerPoint slides.
In fact, LiveWeb is like embedding a full browser in your PowerPoint presentation because you can interact with web pages as if they were opened in a real browser – all the links on web pages stay intact and live.
Live Web uses a wizard based approach to insert websites into PowerPoint slides – you type a list of URL(s) and their relative position on the slide (most common is centered layout). Live Web will then insert new slides each corresponding to your different URLs.
And not just websites, you could embed dynamic web graphic into PowerPoint with Live Web. Examples include a Google Trends chart or the Dow Jones index graph.
Related: Impress Audience with pptPlex for PowerPoint
Update: If you like to insert RSS feeds inside PowerPoint, make sure you syndicate via FeedBurner as IE, unlike Opera 9, can’t render native feeds as HTML web pages.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/insert-webpages-in-powerpoint-presentations/5108/
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Reader Comments
There is a very user friendly way of inserting pdf pages in Powerpoint presentation. After choosing insert option from the main menu choose object option and insert pdf as object.A handy tip indeed.
Written by Neeta on 10.27.08
I wouldn’t thrust in an internet-connection during a presentation.
Written by Andi on 10.27.08
Love this idea. But the risks of showing a live page in a room full of blue suits are all too known to folks who have done client demos anytime. Dummy is the word!
Written by Rajesh Kumar on 10.28.08
Could not trust the internet connection on a high profile presentation, unless you have a backup plan.
Written by DemoGeek on 10.28.08
I wouldn’t risk my presentation trusting Internet.I will surely have a plan B
Written by diggitlive on 10.28.08
this is a very good plug-in that i have often used. however, a caution: it does not in fact let you interact with the live pages - that will freeze your presentation
Written by Sophie on 10.28.08
freeze? i tried the add in, and i can go from page to page, no lags..not to mention freeze…
Written by diggitlive on 10.28.08
this is a very good plug-in that i have often used. however, a caution: it does not in fact let you interact with the live pages - that will freeze your presentation
Written by mark on 11.05.08