How can I make a slideshare's URL match its title?

This is an unfortunate feature.

And now that this is the case I would suggest that you would note clearly on the upload page:

1) How the URL is formed (I don't know and would love to -- Title + something(?) from the description?? .. possibly part of the domain of a URL upload if a document is uploaded from a URL???). Just type out the formula.

2) That the URL can't be changed.

Could you please clarify 1) in any case?

Thanks!

Ps. In addition to the above I'd suggest that you'd provide an additional shorten URL to all docs. For benchmark, e.g. Scribd has a URL structure that is something like scribd.com/doc/[docID]/doc_name but where each doc can be also accessed via scribd.com/doc/[doccID].
This is superhandy as at times you really want to have a descriptive doc title in the URL but also not always type it out.

There's no "formula." When you upload a presentation by any method, you are prompted to enter a Title for it which is what gets displayed as the title of the page.

By default, this title is created from the filename if you don't enter one.

The url is usually just the title with hyphens (-) instead of spaces. In case that url already exists, we just add a number to the end.

thanks for the help guys i was having trouble with this too