After helping you learn how to create multimedia applications, it is appropriate for this book to conclude with a tutorial on distributing them.  Why?  Because multimedia should not be a spectator sport. Everyone should be able to create and contribute, not just sit back and consume. 

There are four ways to distribute a multimedia application created with PowerPoint.  First, if you have Windows, you can use the Pack and Go Wizard to pack your application into a compressed format from which it can be installed onto other Windows computers.  If your application is small, you can pack it onto diskettes.  If your application is large, however, it may require too many diskettes for practical use; not to worry, because you can also use the Pack and Go Wizard to publish an application on higher-capacity media such as zip disks or CD-Rs. You just need to make sure that the computer on which you’re planning to install the application can handle the medium onto which you pack your application.  Whether or not you plan to distribute your application, Pack and Go is a handy way to create a backup of your application onto another medium besides your hard disk drive, so you won’t lose your work should a data-loss-causing accident occur on your hard disk drive. Chapter 39 teaches how to use the Pack and Go wizard. 

Second, you can publish PowerPoint applications as Web pages on the World Wide Web.  PowerPoint includes an incredibly capable Web publishing tool.  Chapter 40 is a tutorial on World Wide Web publishing with PowerPoint. 

Third, you can broadcast your presentation live over the Internet, using the Presentation Broadcast feature.  Presentation Broadcast lets you invite people to attend the broadcast.  If they can’t be there in person, you can archive the broadcast on the Web so people can view it later.  Chapter 41 contains a tutorial on broadcasting an application with PowerPoint.

Finally, if you’d like to take advantage of the collaborative power of the Internet, you can share your application during a live videoconference.  Not only can you show your presentation as part of a videoconference, but you can also yield control to let another user navigate it.  You can even permit another person to edit your presentation during the videoconference.  Thus, you become a worldwide multimedia collaborator over the Internet.  Chapter 42 features Powerpoint’s collaborative capabilities which are based on the inclusion of Microsoft’s NetMeeting technology into PowerPoint.

PART EIGHT:  DISTRIBUTING MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
	Chapter 39		Publishing on Disks with the Pack and Go Wizard
	Chapter 40		Publishing a PowerPoint Presentation As a Web Page
	Chapter 41		Broadcasting Powerpoint Presentations on the Internet
	Chapter 42		Collaborating Over the Internet In an Online Meeting