Running Apps from Inside a powerpoint slide

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Alan Wilson

Hi Folks,

I have a friend who's giving a presentation in a couple of weeks. He
asked me a few things which I think are impossible but I thought I'd see
if there is any way to achive what he wants.

He basically wants to run applications from inside a powerpoint slide -
so during his presentation he wants to run an app and have that app open
up from withing powerpoint and display it's live output.

I believe he's also looking for a way to run a series of commands "batch
like" from inside a powerpoint file - this will be done on Office 2004
for the Mac (hence the cross post) so I suggested for the latter he
could make an action button that either launches a vb macro or a mac
..command file containing the commands he wants.

Anyway know if what he wants to do is possible or an elegant way to
achive it?

Many Thanks.

Alan.
 
Alan Wilson said:
He basically wants to run applications from inside a powerpoint slide -
so during his presentation he wants to run an app and have that app open
up from withing powerpoint and display it's live output.
Click to expand...

He can't display the results within PPT but by using a Run Program action
setting, he can launch the program then switch between it and PPT as needed.
I believe he's also looking for a way to run a series of commands "batch
like" from inside a powerpoint file - this will be done on Office 2004
for the Mac (hence the cross post) so I suggested for the latter he
could make an action button that either launches a vb macro or a mac
..command file containing the commands he wants.
Click to expand...

A macro could run a series of commands, yes.
 
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