Getting .PPS to open in slide show from web page

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Peter Parker

We are making company cd that have PowerPoint presentation in the show
format. What I have done is made a simple web page that auto load when the
cd is insert (autorun). The web page has four links on it one to our web
site, one to a PDF version of the Presentation, one to adobe for the acrobat
reader and one to the slide show. The show is done in XP (2002) format and
is password protected from modification, so only PP XP or late can open it.

The problem is with the slide show link. When I click on it I get the
open or save dialog box, so I select open and it ask for the password. I
select read only and it opens inside IE. Then when I'm scrolling though the
slides it ask for the password again. What I want to happen when I click on
the link is for the slide show to open in full screen. No asking for
password or to be downloaded. My current solution is to point to the
directory and then select the file. Can I get the slide show to open the way
I want? Do I need to mode the web page code? (using Dreamweaver 3).
 
Peter,

How a show opens from IE is often machine specefic, and will be hard to
control.

An alternative is to use a slideshow as your primary interface:

You could auto run your PowerPoint show as a pps automatically from CD, and
provide the other links on the first slide? The idea is that it would be
your prime interface.You could have your first slide have a link to another
show, as well as the other three links you stated. The difficulty is that
how a show opens from IE is machine specific, and you could get different
results in various places. But an auto run will auto run usually on all
machines. The other thing is that there will be a new viewer released soon
that will make your show run better from CD Rom.

Anyway, for your research into this:

Autorun CDs:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

The following link is about how to control how a browser opens Office files:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00189.htm

You can code for a html presentation to open full screen:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00428.htm


Make sense? I gotta run.


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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
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