Automating e-mailed PowerPoint presentations?

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Bad Bart

Hello all,

A how-to question regarding PowerPoint presentations that once opened as
e-mail attachments immediately start and run without any prompting from the
person viewing them: How is that done? Is there a setting than needs to be
activated in PowerPoint, or is this done by using some other program, or is
some sort of PowerPoint add-in required? I would like to know how a show,
upon being opened, starts running without the viewer having to manually turn
on Slide Show View.

I am well aware of the dangers of e-mail attachments and am not looking for
an answer to my question for any nefarious purposes. I would just like to
know the process.

Many thanks for any help, advice or guidance!

Bart
 
Save the file as a presentation file .pps. once received, and if the
recipient has either PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer they will be open
the presentation by clicking on it.
 
Just change the file extension from .PPT to .PPS and send it along.

That's all there is to it.

The different extension tells Windows to tell PowerPoint to open the file in
slideshow mode.

Note that this won't necessarily work on Macs.
 
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