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Microsoft® PowerPoint® for Windows®  95
Internet Assistant Fact Sheet

|What         |The Internet Assistant for Microsoft PowerPoint for    |
|             |Windows 95 is a no-charge add-in that provides users   |
|             |with the ability to easily convert design templates,   |
|             |clip art images, digitized photographs, textures, and  |
|             |formatted text in your PowerPoint slides into rich HTML|
|             |pages for publishing to the Web. Your presentations can|
|             |be seen by anyone using one of the popular Web         |
|             |browsers.                                              |
|How          |With HTML support, users of the PowerPoint presentation|
|             |graphics program will now be able to:                  |
|             |Leverage knowledge of PowerPoint for creating Web      |
|             |pages: Users of PowerPoint already know enough to      |
|             |create rich documents for the Internet. All you need is|
|             |the Internet Assistant to convert your presentation    |
|             |file into a set of linked HTML documents, ready for    |
|             |publishing to the Web. You get two versions of each    |
|             |slide, one graphic and one text. The text version is   |
|             |useful for Web browsers that can’t view graphics, and  |
|             |it’s faster to flip through the text version of slides.|
|             |The graphic version maintains the color scheme and     |
|             |appearance of your original presentation.              |
|             |Navigate with Image Map Support: Image Map support     |
|             |enables flexible online navigation by registering      |
|             |Interactive Settings saved in a PowerPoint for Windows |
|             |95 files. Presenters can easily jump from one slide to |
|             |another or to a related Web page. Just use Interactive |
|             |Settings when you create your slides in PowerPoint for |
|             |Windows 95 to define links. No coding is involved – the|
|             |Internet Assistant automatically creates the image     |
|             |maps.                                                  |
|             |Apply your corporate design to your HTML pages:        |
|             |Advanced users can customize the text and graphic      |
|             |templates (.TLP) so that PowerPoint outputs HTML pages |
|             |that match the other Web pages for your company.       |
|Why          |The expectation and demand for exciting, flashy but    |
|             |content intensive Web pages is growing. It is important|
|             |that the general business user be able to easily create|
|             |and view files for either the Internet or internal     |
|             |corporate Intranets. With the Internet Assistant for   |
|             |PowerPoint 95, users can create and share compelling   |
|             |information taking advantage of their knowledge of     |
|             |PowerPoint without having to know sophisticated        |
|             |authoring or programming languages, or the complicated |
|             |code associated with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). |
|When         |The Internet Assistant for PowerPoint 95 can be        |
|             |downloaded from the WWW at http://                     |
|             |www.microsoft.com/mspowerpoint under “Free Stuff”, and |
|             |CompuServe (GO “msdesktop”, then see the PowerPoint for|
|             |Windows section).                                      |


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