importing application files into presentations

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I am putting together a lecture to present to a group of students and faculty. I am describing a certain task (vigilance task, to be exact) and would like to give a demo of what the task looks like. Is there a way for me to import an application file (.exe) into the presentation?
 
You can launch applications through action settings on shapes. Is that what
you are looking for?

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prrpb said:
I am putting together a lecture to present to a group of students and
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faculty. I am describing a certain task (vigilance task, to be exact) and
would like to give a demo of what the task looks like. Is there a way for
me to import an application file (.exe) into the presentation?
 
Hi,

What Chiraq said and you can "insert" the application by
clicking on insert, object, create from file, find
your .exe file and click ok. It will create an icon that
links to your application. Click on the icon to select
it, click on Slide Show, Custom Animation, choose Add
Effect (PPT 2002 or higher), Object Actions, Activate
Contents. You can choose to activate the file
automatically (with/after previous)or on click.

HTH,
Glenna
 
I am putting together a lecture to present to a group of students and faculty. I am
Click to expand...
describing a certain task (vigilance task, to be exact) and would like to give a demo of
what the task looks like. Is there a way for me to import an application file (.exe)
into the presentation?

Some of the other posters have explained how you can launch the EXE from within
PowerPoint. That's one good way to handle it.

Another is simply to include "screen shots" of the application's screens that
demonstrate what you're after.

To create a screenshot, get the application set up the way you want it, then press
PrtScrn (to capture the whole screen) or Alt+PrtScrn (to capture just the current
window).

Then either paste the image directly onto your PPT slide or (preferred) paste it into an
image editing program (MS PhotoEditor or whatever else you prefer). From there, save as
PNG then you can use Insert, Picture, From File in PPT to import the picture.




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