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If you are someone who often uses Slideshare for all your presentation needs, be it getting ideas for your creative juices to flow, publishing powerpoint presentations, sharing them with the masses etc, this article brings good news for you.

For those of you who might be unaware of Slideshare, SlideShare is to powerpoint presentations, what Youtube is to Videos.

Till date, the general workflow for creating and publishing Powerpoint presenations over Slideshare has been involved around

1.) Create Powerpoint presenation using Powerpoint software.

2.) Login to Slideshare.

3.) Upload the Powerpoint presenation, Publish and convert for sharing.

However, now things have changed starting today. If you are someone who uses Microsoft Office 2007, you can now share your presentations instantly with the world using SlideShare Ribbon plugin for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. 

You would be required to install the SlideShare Ribbon Plugin for Microsoft office 2007 and use the ribbon to “Publish” your presentation to Slideshare.

If you ever wish to update the ppt on Slideshare, you can do so as well by re-publishing the presentation.

The Slideshare ribbon plugin for Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 also allows you to search, preview, download and edit existing presentations on Slideshare. Infact, it also allows you to publish to Twitter and FriendFeed.

SlideShare Ribbon Demo from slideshare on Vimeo.

The above embedded video also gives you a demonstration of the SlideShare Ribbon.

Install Instructions for SlideShare Ribbon

1. You need PowerPoint 2007 for Windows. Earlier versions of PowerPoint, and PowerPoint for Mac, are not supported (yet). Supported versions of Windows are Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or greater and Windows Vista.
2. IMPORTANT: Check in “Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs” to make sure you have the latest version of the .Net framework (Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1). This is a mandatory pre-requisite for the SlideShare Ribbon for PowerPoint.
3. If you don’t have .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, you need to install it from here before installing the SlideShare Ribbon.
4. Install the SlideShare Ribbon for PowerPoint from here after making sure that you have Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed on your machine    

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