# Can I build a demo from a presentation instead of my website?

> Not instead of your website, but alongside it: a presentation goes live together with at least one page of your site. Upload a PowerPoint (.pptx) or Pages file, or paste a Google Slides or Google Docs link that anyone with the link can view. Visitors can play it with narration, and the guide answers questions from your slides and notes.

Reviewed 2026-10-27.

## Steps

1. Before you go live, use Or start from a presentation below your page list. After you go live, open Demo settings, then Presentation and approved pages.
2. Under PowerPoint or Pages, choose your file. For a Google file, open Research, if the guide should read more, paste the link under Links, one https address per line, and press Save research.
3. Pick a slide, write what you'd say about it in its presenter notes, and press Save notes.
4. Before go-live, keep at least one page of your site ticked and press Go live with N pages. After go-live, presentation changes save straight away.

![Or start from a presentation before go-live: a PowerPoint or Pages file picker, and Research, if the guide should read more.](https://storage.googleapis.com/demopage-media/docs/deck-start.f7009c25b5c3.webp)

## Files and links

- Files must be under 8 MB.
- Keynote and PDF files aren't accepted, so export them to PowerPoint first.
- A Google Slides link replaces your presentation. A Google Docs link becomes the presentation if you don't have one yet; otherwise the guide reads it as research.
- You can add up to 4 links. Other https pages become research the guide can answer from.
- Or paste a doc takes notes you paste in, at least 40 characters, for the guide to answer from.
- Presenter notes can be up to 2,000 characters a slide.
- If a Google file isn't shared, you see "Share that Google file so anyone with the link can view, then paste it again."

## What visitors see

- Watch the presentation, on the demo page's start screen, opens your slides.
- One slide at a time, with its title and up to 8 lines of text.
- Previous slide and Next slide move through the slides.
- Play with notes reads each slide's notes aloud, or its text when it has no notes, and moves to the next slide by itself. Pause and Resume control it.
- The guide answers questions from your slides, notes, and research, and cites the slide it used. See [How does the demo answer questions?](https://demopage.io/help/how-answers-work.md)
- Opening the presentation doesn't save the visitor as a lead or send you an alert.

Step by step: [Pick the pages](https://demopage.io/docs/pages-and-access.md#pages).

## Related questions

- [How do I set what the guide can open in my demo?](https://demopage.io/help/choose-pages.md)
- [How does the demo answer questions, and where do the answers come from?](https://demopage.io/help/how-answers-work.md)
- [How do I change the pages after my demo is live?](https://demopage.io/help/update-pages.md)
- [What does my visitor see when they open the demo?](https://demopage.io/help/visitor-experience.md)

Still stuck? Email hello@demopage.io. All questions: [Help center](https://demopage.io/help.md).