Running powerpoint presentation directly from Menu

[Stephen]

I am a new user with Autoplay3.02. I have made a menu to play a Powerpoint Presentation. It works fine but I wish to have a one button operation of this slide show. I am using the Powerpoint Viewer to run the .PPT file. Can the PPviewer menu be bypassed using the autoplay menu controls? This way the Slide show will start with only the one button being pressed on the Autoplay menu instead of several actions?

[AndrewClark]

Re: Running powerpoint presentation directly from Menu

Stephen,
Under the button object properties, select Actions>Mouse Click>Add Action>Execute>Open Document. Here insert the name of the Powerpoint presentation. Clicking on the button will fire off the Powerpoint viewer by Windows associating the presention (.ppt) with the viewer.
Regards
Andrew

[Stephen]

Re: Running powerpoint presentation directly from Menu

Thank you, but I tried this and all it does is open presentation up in the Powerpoint program, ready to either edit it or show it.
How can I get it to open using viewer only?

[Stephen]

Re: Running powerpoint presentation directly from Menu

Continued from above,
I would like to give this Powerpoint slide show to someone who does not have Powerpoint on their system.

[AndrewClark]

Re: Running powerpoint presentation directly from Menu

I tried the following, and it seems to work:
Set the action to Execute Program.
Set the Target>Filename to the Powerpoint Viewer eg:
%SrcDrv%\Program Files\PowerPoint Viewer\PPVIEW32.EXE
Set the Target>Arguments to the ppt you want the user to see eg:
%SrcDrv%\data\presentation.ppt
You will have to create your Virtual CD folder and insert the Powepoint Viewer files in there. It might be best to install the Viewer to a machine that does not have the full version of Powerpoint installed and then copy all the files from that machine to your development machine
One thing to be aware of is that the Argument line does not seem to like file names which include a space.

[Stephen]

Re: Running powerpoint presentation directly from Menu

Yes, That seems to work.
Thanks