2003 Pack and Go

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Sue

I created an autorun CD using the Pack and Go function.
Even though I get this warning...
"One or more of your presentations contain macros, linked
programs, linked objects, or embedded objects. They will
not work in the PowerPoint Viewer. Do you want to
continue.
....it appears as if everything on the final CD works.
I've tested this by placing the CD in my CD drive and
clicking on the CD. I can see that it's launching the
PowerPoint viewer. I have links in my presentation
to .pdf files and I have videos playing in the .pps show.
I originally inserted the videos by the "insert movies or
sounds" function.

My question is
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Even though I got the warning, everything in my
presentation seems to be working fine. However, I want to
make sure that it will work fine on a computer with only
the PowerPoint viewer and not the full-blown version of
PowerPoint. Could it be that if it works on my computer,
all of the links will not work on another computer that
only has the PowerPoint viewer on the CD? I don't have a
computer without the full-blown version of PowerPoint to
test this on and I want to be sure it will work before I
have 900 copies burned to CD.
 
I recommend that you test it on *several* systems. Uninstall PowerPoint if
you have to. Burning 900 CD's "in the blind" is not a wise thing. Besides,
if Microsoft says that there is something in the presentation that won't
work, I'd want to know what it is. By the way, will all 900 systems have
Acrobat Reader installed? If not then the PDF's will fail.
 
I've tested this by placing the CD in my CD drive and
clicking on the CD.
Click to expand...

Ah, but that's not really testing. If the links point to C:\Your
Folder\On\Your Drive\whatever.pdf then as long as those files are still there,
the links will work.

When you move the whole thing to another computer, one that doesn't have a
C:\Your Folder\On\Your Drive\ folder, much less a copy of whatever.pdf in it,
it'll fail.

You need to test on a different PC, ideally.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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