Taking notes in a kiosk?

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Rob Lerner

PPT 2002/2000/97

Hey, everyone! I've missed talking to you all, but have been so busy with
Excel projects. Now I'm back on a PPT project and have a question. I just
had a thought for this project and don't want to waste time if this is
impossible or if there is code out there for doing this already.

In a kiosk ran from CD, I'm looking to let users take notes maybe in a
textbox and then be able to print all their notes in NotePad or Word.

I know about Meeting Minder, but users may not know how to launch it, and I
don't want this labeled as a meeting or minutes. I'd rather have something
more "in the slide" as a place for notes.

What about a userform? Can that then be printed? I create them all the time
in Excel, but have never messed with them in PPT. Would that be an idea? Any
other ideas?

Thanks,
-Robert Lerner
 
In a kiosk ran from CD, I'm looking to let users take notes maybe in a
textbox and then be able to print all their notes in NotePad or Word.
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Will users run the presentation in PPT or in the viewer?

If PPT, how about:

Button on the slide master labeled "Note this!" or something similar.
User clicks the button, up comes a user form with a text box they can type
notes into.
They click OK, the text box's text is appended to a string variable.

At the end you can write the variable out to file and have another button bring
the file up in notepad or wordpad or whatever.
 
Robert,
Just don't run the Show in Kiosk mode since that disables the
keyboard.
Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
 
Just don't run the Show in Kiosk mode since that disables the
keyboard.
Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
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True. But luckily, not when a user form is on screen, so a form with a text
box should work quite nicely.
 
Hi, Steve. Good to be talking to you again.

For the moment, I have to forget the Take Notes feature. I've got a bigger
hurdle. I just found out users are all over the board with PPT/Windows
versions. Some won't even have PPT at all. Some won't even have Win98se. I'm
cutting it off, however at Win98 - they have to have at least that.

I hate to loose features for those without current software, but I can't
loose that audience.

Is there a way to burn multiple versions of the show on CD, along with both
versions of the viewer, and then have some sort of code or userform
determine/ask what software they have and make the choice for them? It would
then play show1 without any viewer if they have PPT 2002+ ; play show2 with
2003 viewer if they have Windows98se+ ; play show3 with 97 viewer if they
have pre-Windows98se. I know those aren't all the options, but you get the
idea.

If, not would burning different versions to different CD's be the way to go?

Whatya' think?

This may sound crazy, but that sums up my life!

-Robert
 
Thanks, Geetesh. In fact, I wanted to use his wonderful add-in in another
way, but I was cut down on using any add-ins at all. Bummer.

-Robert
 
Is there a way to burn multiple versions of the show on CD, along with both
versions of the viewer, and then have some sort of code or userform
determine/ask what software they have and make the choice for them? It would
then play show1 without any viewer if they have PPT 2002+ ; play show2 with
2003 viewer if they have Windows98se+ ; play show3 with 97 viewer if they
have pre-Windows98se. I know those aren't all the options, but you get the
idea.
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It'd be fairly easy for a program to ask the user what version of Windows they
have and whether they have PPT/Viewer and if so what version. You'd have to
decide whether you want to trust the responses you got from them. That'd
depend a lot on the audience.

A smarter program could work out the Windows version and maybe even check the
registry for installed PPT/Viewer versions. Thinks: might be worth checking
out installer programs - this sort of thing is their stock in trade, after all.
 
Steve,
Some times it's worth keeping you around here for these tidbits.
'xactly correct.
Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP (who never uses Kiosk mode)
 
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Steve Rindsberg said:
A smarter program could work out the Windows version and maybe even check the
registry for installed PPT/Viewer versions. Thinks: might be worth checking
out installer programs - this sort of thing is their stock in trade, after
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all.

Thanks, Steve. I'm dabbling with CreateInstall. We'll see how it works out.

-Robert
 
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