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  1. * Non-Outline Text Slide

Adding Non-Outline Text Slide to Webpage Template

While most PowerPoint presentations consist bullet lists and titles, many also contain text that the creator of the presentation has added. The most common way to add non-bullet text to a presentation is to add a text box to the presentation and then add the text to the box.

Unfortunately, if you add text to the slide using a text box, the text will not be output using the "Save as RTF" method. Also, the text inserted via text boxes does not appear in the outline view of the presentation, so the slide looks (from the outline view) like it is empty.

To convert slides with non-outline text:



  1. Go into the BODY section at the location where this slides should be inserted; insert this new slide at the end of the BODY section since it is the eleventh slide in the presentation and appears after all previously created slides.

    From the sample "Human-Computer Interaction" presentation, the original PowerPoint slide 11 (see Image 38 ).


    Note: All of this slide's text is in text boxes, even the title. In addition to having non-outline based text, this slide also features a hyperlink (see section 5 for information on how to convert this hyperlink). This slide also contains a transition and sound. The W3C WAI specification states that moving objects and text should be avoided if possible; this is because moving items at certain frequencies could induce seizures, and also people with cognitive disabilities may have problems viewing slides with moving text and graphics.

  2. Begin with the image and title of the slide: <!-- Slide 11 -->
    <img src="Slide11.jpg" alt="Slide 11">
    <H1>Academic Misconduct</H1>

    Note: you have already dealt with one of the text boxes - the title. In this slide, the title was placed into a text box because the slide originally (when created) was blank and did not have any elements on it.

  3. Add the paragraphs of the text box into our HTML version of this slide.
     
  4. Save your work as an HTML file. For this example, save as presentation.htm. The completed code for converting a Non-Outline Text Slide (i.e. Slide 11) of the PowerPoint presentation HCI.ppt should be as follows.

    Code Sample of Non-Outline Text Slide:

    <!-- Slide 11 -->
    <img src="Slide11.jpg" alt="Slide 11">
    <H1>Academic Misconduct</H1>

    <p>
      I expect (and hope for) you to collaborate freely
      amongst yourselves when discussing topics in this
      class.
    </p>

    <p>
      With this in mind, your essays and test answers
      must be your answers.  You may not collaborate in
      any fashion (not even "can you skim this and see if I missed anything" type e-mails)
      on your essays.
    </p>

    <p>
      Any student who violates the university's academic
      misconduct rules will receive an F in the course.
    </p>

    <p>
      Please speak with me and consult your
      <a href="http://my_university.edu/student_handbook/index.html">
        student handbook</a>
      if you have questions and for more information.
    </p>


    Notice that each paragraph in the original PowerPoint slide is a separate paragraph on the HTML slide. Also, you created the hyperlink for the "student handbook" link on the slide. You can right-click the link in PowerPoint and then select "Hyperlink" and then "Edit Hyperlink" option (see Image 39 )




  5. Open your HTML file in a web browser. The file should display with the slide image, followed by the title and then the slide content (see Image 40) .


    You can also view the context of the Non-Outline Text Slide in the complete conversion of the Sample PPT to HTML (, 520 KB).

Now that you have completed the textual content of the slide, you can add the sound.

The next page will discuss adding the sound of this slide into your HTML slide.

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