In the last SlideShare post, we showed how you can join SlideShare and get an invite. In this post, we’ll show how you can upload a presentation to the SlideShare site. In the next SlideShare post, we will show how you can share the uploaded presentation slides with others.
Follow these steps to upload your presentation slides:
- Once you have logged in to SlideShare, click the Start sharing your slides now button, as shown in Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: Start uploading your slides- Doing so brings up the upload page, as shown in Figure 2, below. Click the Choose button and locate a presentation file located in your system. As of now, SlideShare accepts PowerPoint (PPT and PPS), and OpenOffice (ODP) files only. Apple Keynote users can save their presentations to PowerPoint files and then upload.
Figure 2: Provide upload details- Enter a title, description, and tags for the presentation you are uploading. Then, click on the Upload button.
- The uploading can take a while, depending upon the size of your presentation, and the speed of your Internet connection. Behind the scenes, SlideShare also converts your entire presentation to a Flash SWF file that’s more compact than your original presentation slides.
- Once this is done, the uploaded presentation can be viewed as an online Flash-based slideshow. Click the Title link, as shown in Figure 3, below, to see the slideshow of the uploaded presentation.
Figure 3: The uploaded presentation
In the next post on SlideShare, we will show you how to share your uploaded slides.

