Displaying Powerpoint Slideshow in Web pages or Blogs

Trying to find the right way to display PowerPoint slides on the web led me to some sites that asks me to download a freeware file. But as I discovered eventually, I don't need to download any questionable freeware but I do need to have Picasa which is already bundled in Google Pack and an account in Picasaweb to which I only need my Google username to log in. With my PowerPoint file, Picasa and Picasaweb account ready, I only need to do the following:

1. Save the PowerPoint file (*.ppt) as an image file i.e. .jpeg,gif, png, or .tiff. Even if the file has multiple slides, PowerPoint will save the slides individually naming them slide1.jpeg, slide2.jpeg, etc. These files will automatically be saved onto the folder PowerPoint will create which is of the same name as the *.ppt file being converted.

2. Open Picasa application and then these image files will be automatically uploaded. Locate the image files and then drag all of them into the tray below and then click "Web Albums". A menu will pop-up that'll ask which folder in Picasaweb it will put the photos.

4. In Picasaweb website, go to thefolder where the PowerPoint images are. On the left side of the page click on "Embed Slideshow" (if "Embed Slideshow" link is nowhere in sight, go to Settings then choose English-US as language).

5. In the pop-up menu choose small, medium, large or extra large and then unclick autoplay so that embedded slideshow will not automatically begin when the reader opens the blog.

6. Copy the HTML code and paste onto the HTML editor for your website or blog.

7. Exit from the "Edit Html" page and view slideshow. Do necessary adjustments with the width and height sizes if needed.

For Google Pages, see this discovery.