Need MS product list are MSORUN.dll shipping vehicle.

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Hi,

I'm looking for futher description of how MSORUN.DLL are distributed. I
guess someone at MS Product Support team or MVPs may know that.

I know that this dll normaly distributed with Office XP/2003 or stand alone
PowerPoint XP/2003 package, otherwise I can manually download and install
this dll from Microsoft download center web site. But I'm assuming that this
dll can also be installed to my PC by other products or service packs.

I have a bunch of fully animated ppt files and am attempting to deliver them
from the company web site. And I have to add a page which describes who
should manually download and install MSORUN.DLL from MS web site.

I googled "msorun.dll" but couldn't found worthy readings.
Can anyone help me please?
Any input would be appreciated.

TK
 
I have a bunch of fully animated ppt files and am attempting to deliver them
from the company web site. And I have to add a page which describes who
should manually download and install MSORUN.DLL from MS web site.
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MSORUN.DLL is apparently required for viewing presentations made by Producer
but it's not one of the files required by either of the PowerPoint viewers.

What exactly are you posting on your site and what software do you expect
visitors to have?
 
Hi Steve, thanks for your response.

I converted my ppt files to HTML pages by saving them "Save as Web page"
file menu.
Visitors who have installed Office or PowerPoint can see animation on
his/her browser but other poeple just see non-animated slides. So I want
such people to manually download and install MSORUN.DLL to their PC.

The HTML files which MS Producer generated are including a <object> tag let
browsers to download MSORUN.DLL automatically, but the tags which PowerPoint
generated doesn't have this option.

P.S. apology for my broken English launguage. I'm not a native English
speaker.
TK
 
TK,

First off, there's no need to be shy about your English - it's excellent. I'd
never have guessed you're not a native speaker. I only wish I could speak
another language half so well as you speak English!

As to MSORUN.DLL - I'd swear that the last time I called up a web page that
needed it, I was prompted to download it. I wonder if the problem isn't in the
individual users' browser settings (ie, automatic downloading is turned off)

Can you post a url to one of your published presentations?
 
Thank you very much.
But you seems expect my language skill too much. Actually I've spent more
than 10 minutes while type out my previous message with an English
dictionary. :- )
By the way, you can't access my presentations due to access permission,
because all of them are private education courseware. In stead, I attached
below the lines of <object> tag ware pulled out from two HTML files. One has
been generated by PowerPoint "Save as Web page" and another one is created
by MS Producer 2002.

#PowerPoint 2002 generates...
<object id=MSOANIM
classid="CLSID:A4639D2F-774E-11D3-A490-00C04F6843FB"></object>

#MS Producer 2002 generates...
<object style="visibility:hidden" id=MSOANIM
classid="CLSID:A4639D2F-774E-11D3-A490-00C04F6843FB"

codebase="http://download.microsoft.com/download/vizact2000/Install/10/WIN98
Me/EN-US/msorun.cab#version=10,0,0,1"></object>

Again, I'm only using PowerPoint 2002 and can not switch to Producer because
I don't have any audio/video.
As you can see above, MS Producer generates an <object> tag includes
codebase option so that client's browser automatically download the ActiveX
controll. I've been using this trick on my presentations. I added an Opening
page which guide visitors to the target presentation, and I copied and
pasted above Producer's code into the Opening page. Then visitors who don't
have MSORUN.dll on PC successfully install it thru typical ActiveX control
installation subsequence UNTIL something was changed on the
download.microsoft.com site. Today, you no longer see such ActiveX controll
installation subsequence for MSORUN.dll unless your PC is running Win XP.
You'll see your browser forwarded to the "MS Download Center" page. OK, it
still work for you English language people, but not for non-English people
such as Japanese, because the download center page is an English page. Many
of visitors to my site do not understand English because they are elementary
school kids or aged people.

So, I want to provide a clear concrete "step-by-step" description for people
should get MSORUN.dll from Microsoft-Japan site. And first of all my work, I
need to know I should help for whom.

Any Idea?
TK
 
Thank you very much.
But you seems expect my language skill too much. Actually I've spent more
than 10 minutes while type out my previous message with an English
dictionary. :- )
Click to expand...

Dou itashimashite. Boku no nihongo kuraberu to jouzu desu yo.

I published a web page from PowerPoint 2002. I included some animations in it.
Then I opened it on a Windows 2000 PC with only PowerPoint 97 installed.

After a few seconds I saw a dialog that asked "Do you want to install and run
"Microsoft Office Animation Runtime ..." That last part was also a link so I
clicked it and it took me here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4033a84a-24c7-40b2-878
3-d80ada33cff8&displaylang=en

That page is in English. Dakedo hora ... kore ha Nihongo da!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4033a84a-24c7-40b2-878
3-d80ada33cff8&displaylang=ja

;-)

Does that solve the problem for you?
 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4033a84a-24c7-40b2-878
3-d80ada33cff8&displaylang=ja
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I know, the "Microsoft-Japan download center page" I wrote in previous
message is this.
But...
Does that solve the problem for you?
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No. My point is, how I can let visitors know if he/her doesn't have
msorun.dll in PC and should download it. And what I'm attempt to avoid is,
to make visitors be surprised by suddenly step into "full English" download
center page. Before the visitors open my presentations, they need to be
guided to the page you pointed.

I'm thinking of two options, one is give visitors description about
conditions to go and download, another one is develop HTML page which detect
installation of msorun.dll and let visitors go automatically. I'll try
second one quickly.

Anyway, thank you for help Steve.
Doumo arigatou gozaimashita. :-)

TK
 
Does that solve the problem for you?
No. My point is, how I can let visitors know if he/her doesn't have
msorun.dll in PC and should download it. And what I'm attempt to avoid is,
to make visitors be surprised by suddenly step into "full English" download
center page. Before the visitors open my presentations, they need to be
guided to the page you pointed.
Click to expand...

Ah, I see!

Can you display an HTML page only to new users the first time they log in?
If that's possible, then you could show them a page that explains what MSORUN.DLL
is for and why they need it. It also shows them a screen shot of the dialog that
they'll see if they don't have it. Then there's a link to the MS-Ja download
site they can follow to get MSORUN.DLL

Finally, there's a link to a test presentation's HTML page. They can visit that
link; if they see the "Do you want to download ..." dialog box, they can click
"iie" then go back to the original HTML page and follow the download link. If
they don't see the download dialog box and do see animations, it means that they
don't need MSORUN.DLL.

It sounds more complicated than it really is, I think.
 
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