Is it possible to automatically load a PowerPoint file from within another
PowerPoint file?

Here's the scenario: I'm running a number of linked slides from the internet
and want to have an initial "splash" powerpoint file that loads quickly,
while the reader is viewing this intro information I want the main PowerPoint
file to load automatically with no user action required.

Thanks for any suggestions! Please send a copy of your reply post to
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Craig Fryar, PhD PowerPoint
Austin, TX USA

You can link your presentations, check this out:
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm
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"cfryar" wrote:

> Is it possible to automatically load a PowerPoint file from within another
> PowerPoint file?
>
> Here's the scenario: I'm running a number of linked slides from the internet
> and want to have an initial "splash" powerpoint file that loads quickly,
> while the reader is viewing this intro information I want the main PowerPoint
> file to load automatically with no user action required.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions! Please send a copy of your reply post to
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
> Craig Fryar, PhD PowerPoint
> Austin, TX USA

In article <668C6286-0B6A-4C08-B3AB-(E-Mail Removed)>, Cfryar wrote:
> Is it possible to automatically load a PowerPoint file from within another
> PowerPoint file?
>
> Here's the scenario: I'm running a number of linked slides from the internet
> and want to have an initial "splash" powerpoint file that loads quickly,
> while the reader is viewing this intro information I want the main PowerPoint
> file to load automatically with no user action required.

This may depend on how you're posting your slides to the net. Are they uploaded
as PPT/PPS files or after converting them to HTML?

If the former, I don't think there's any way to do what you're after, though you
might break the presentation up into several smaller PPT files, one linked to
the next, so that none of them is exceptionally large.

If you don't need animation, I have a commercial add-in that does PPT to HTML
conversions and allows you to set things up such that while the user is viewing
Slide 1, it's downloading and caching the image for Slide 2 behind the scenes;
when they advance to Slide 2, it's almost instantaneous (and immediately starts
downloading the image for Slide 3).

See http://ppt2html.pptools.com for more info and a free fully functional demo.

Here's an example of what I just described (ignore all the links at the bottom
of the page ... they're optional and easily deleted if not wanted):
http://helenrindsberg.myiglou.com/No...whatisart1.htm

>
> Thanks for any suggestions! Please send a copy of your reply post to
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
> Craig Fryar, PhD PowerPoint
> Austin, TX USA
>

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