The save as webpage options are not available in PowerPoint 2010

Symptoms

When you try to save a presentation as a webpage in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, the following Save as type options are not available in the Save As dialog box:

  • Web Page (.htm;.html)
  • Single File Web Page (.mht;.mhtml)

Workaround

To work around this issue, use the PowerPoint object model. This method provides compatibility with older add-ins and macros, and enables you to save the file as *.htm or *.mht.

This method to save a PowerPoint file as a webpage (*.htm; *.html) to the desktop uses the ppSaveAsHTML argument for the *.htm file format. It does not include the msoFalse argument to embed True Type fonts.

To save your file as a webpage, follow these steps:

  1. In PowerPoint 2010, open the presentation that you want to export to HTML.

  2. Press Alt+F11 to open Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications.

  3. Press Ctrl+G to open the Immediate pane.

  4. In the Immediate pane, type the following command, and then press Enter:

    ActivePresentation.SaveAs "<Drive>:\users\<username>\desktop\<filename>.htm", ppSaveAsHTML, msoFalse

    Note

    • In this command, replace <Drive>:\users\<username>\desktop\<filename>.htm` with the location where you want to save your file as a webpage.
    • If you want to save the file as a single webpage in the *.mht or *.mhtml file format, replace the htm extension at the end of the file name with mht, and replace ppSaveAsHTML with ppSaveAsWebArchive. For example: ActivePresentation.SaveAs "<Drive>:\users\<username>\desktop\<filename>.mht", ppSaveAsWebArchive, msoFalse

References

For more information about the Presentation.SaveAs method in PowerPoint 2010, see Presentation.SaveAs Method (PowerPoint).

For more information about the files types that can be passed to the Presentation.SaveAs method, see PpSaveAsFileType Enumeration (PowerPoint)

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