How to Embed a PowerPoint File on a Web Page using plain HTML
In this article, we show how to embed a Microsoft PowerPoint on a web page using plain HTML.
Doing this on your own, using your own custom code, is difficult.
The best way to embed a microsoft powerpoint file on a web page is to use the API provided by microsoft, which allows you to embed a powerpoint right on your website.
And the code is extremely simple. It is shown below.
In the above code, where you see, specify path here, you replace that and put the complete path to your PowerPoint file. And that is all that is required.
So Microsoft makes it very easy to show Microsoft documents such as PowerPoint files online.
Using the API that they set up, you have a fully-featured microsoft PowerPoint file that a user can search terms for and do many other advanced functions.
Just as an example, I uploaded a PowerPoint file to this website. It's just an example file containing a PowerPoint slides on headaches and low back apin for a college-level class at Stony Brook University.
The code to embed this document on this page is shown below.
Using Microsoft's API, I am able to show the following Microsoft PowerPoint file seen below.
As you can see this PowerPoint file views just like a PowerPoint file would appear on the actual desktop software.
Of course it's not fully featured because you're not going to do things such as edit or change fonts. It's only on the web for viewing, so none of those other features are present. But you can resize it, you can search the document for specific terms, you can print the document, you can download the document, as well as many other features that Microsoft provides.
So using the API is a very good idea. It allows the embedding of PowerPoint files very easily online and gives many features. It is not recommended to do it any other way.
So using plain HTML, an anchor tag, you can embed and display a Microsoft PowerPoint file on a web page.
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