In this box, type the name of the computer that houses the installation of Windows Media Encoder that you want to use to stream the ASF information.


In this box, type the path to the BaseURL where these slides are exported. When the PowerPoint slides are converted to image files, the slides are named slide1, slide2, slide3, and so on until they have all been named. Each file is given the extension (.jpg or .gif) of the image format that was used. The Base URL is the path that is added to the beginning of the file name for each slide so that the proper URL for each slide exists. For example, if the Base URL is set to http://server/slides, then the URLs that is created to access the slides is http://server/slides/slide1.jpg, http://server/slides/slide2.jpg, and so on.


Select Use Windows Media Encoder during the slide show if you want to connect to and then start Windows Media Encoder (provided that you have the Start new Windows Media Encoder option turned on) when you start the PowerPoint presentation. The default for this option is off, which means that the presentation is not sent to Windows Media Encoder when you view the PowerPoint presentation. This allows you to view the slide show without using (or starting) Windows Media Encoder.


Use Start new Windows Media Encoder to automatically start the specified Windows Media Encoder when you start the PowerPoint presentation. This property is on by default. When this property is on and the Use Windows Media Encoder during slide show is on, when you start View Show, PowerPoint connects to Windows Media Encoder and tells it which .asd file to use. Windows Media Encoder then configures itself according to the .asd file and begins encoding whatever it receives.


Allows PowerPoint to connect to an installation of  Windows Media Encoder that is already running. This option is turned off by default.


When the Reconfigure using ASD file option is turned on and the PowerPoint presentation is started, PowerPoint connects to the specified Windows Media Encoder. If the specified Windows Media Encoder is running, PowerPoint stops the encoder, instructs the encoder to load a new .asd file, and then starts the encoder again.


Click Browse to look through local directories and mapped drives for an ASD file to use to reconfigure Windows Media Encoder. This button is only available when the Reconfigure using ASD file box is checked.


In this box, type the path to the .asd file that Windows Media Encoder must use.


In this box, type the path to the Windows Media Encoder Settings (.nse) file PowerPoint Presenter must use for this presentation.  Click Browse to look through the local directories and computers for an .nse file.  The .nse file identifies Windows Media Encoder, the base URL, the slide image format and the .asd file for Presenter.


Enter a location to where the PowerPoint slides are to be exported. PowerPoint can export the slides to a local directory or you can use ftp:// to export the slides to a remote directory.


The width (in pixels) of the exported slide image.


The height (in pixels) of the exported slide image.


Quality of the JPEG image when it is exported. The image quality can be set anywhere from 1-100%.


Type the your user name to access the FTP server.


Type your user password to access the FTP server.


Choose the image type to export - either JPEG or GIF. Your choice determines the image format that is used as well as how the images are named. For example if you choose JPEG then the images are named slide1.jpg, slide2.jpg, and so on. If you choose GIF then you slides are named slide1.gif, slide2.gif, and so on.


Select Ignore Errors from Windows Media Encoder if you do not want Windows Media Encoder to report errors back to PowerPoint once a connection between Windows Media Encoder and PowerPoint has been established.


Select Use this configuration with current slide show if you want to associate this Windows Media Encoder Setting (.nse) file with the presentation currently open.  This option is not available if you do not have a presentation open.


Click Browse to select an existing Windows Media Encoder Settings (.nse) file.


Select Use this configuration with current slide show if you want to associate this Windows Media Encoder Setting (.nse) file with the presentation currently open.  This option is not available if you do not have a presentation open.