I am into PowerPoint Automation.

I need to have a custom splash screen for PowerPoint. I need to know how can
I show a bmp file (or any image file) as a splash screen when PowerPoint is
launched?

Thanks in advance.

In article <60A3EAFD-BF09-4DB8-ADE9-(E-Mail Removed)>, Technoknight
wrote:
> I am into PowerPoint Automation.
>
> I need to have a custom splash screen for PowerPoint. I need to know how can
> I show a bmp file (or any image file) as a splash screen when PowerPoint is
> launched?

I doubt you can legally modify that.

However, perhaps you could start your own application with its own splash
screen. It could launch PPT invisibly, then after a period of time make PPT
visible (there'd be no splash screen) and then quit.

-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

Thanks for the reply Steve.

But, forgive my ignorance, I am not sure how can I incoporate my app to show
the splash screen. I thought that I can make an app (using VB6) to show a
splash sreen and then call that app from an addin (which is autoloaded when
PPT App starts). But, then I was in a dilemma where to put the code to call
my splash app (.exe file). In what even shud I write the code? Or there is
some other method to do so?

Thanks in advance.

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

> In article <60A3EAFD-BF09-4DB8-ADE9-(E-Mail Removed)>, Technoknight
> wrote:
> > I am into PowerPoint Automation.
> >
> > I need to have a custom splash screen for PowerPoint. I need to know how can
> > I show a bmp file (or any image file) as a splash screen when PowerPoint is
> > launched?
>
> I doubt you can legally modify that.
>
> However, perhaps you could start your own application with its own splash
> screen. It could launch PPT invisibly, then after a period of time make PPT
> visible (there'd be no splash screen) and then quit.
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> PPTools: www.pptools.com
> ================================================
>
>
>

In article <FEC32083-9F87-4E66-BFCE-(E-Mail Removed)>, Technoknight
wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Steve.
>
> But, forgive my ignorance, I am not sure how can I incoporate my app to show
> the splash screen. I thought that I can make an app (using VB6) to show a
> splash sreen and then call that app from an addin (which is autoloaded when
> PPT App starts). But, then I was in a dilemma where to put the code to call
> my splash app (.exe file). In what even shud I write the code? Or there is
> some other method to do so?

I think you might have to launch YOUR app, let it display a splash screen, and
behind the scenes invoke PowerPoint. If your addin does the work, I suspect it
wouldn't even load until after/during the time PPT is displaying its own splash
screen.

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> "Steve Rindsberg" wrote:
>
> > In article <60A3EAFD-BF09-4DB8-ADE9-(E-Mail Removed)>, Technoknight
> > wrote:
> > > I am into PowerPoint Automation.
> > >
> > > I need to have a custom splash screen for PowerPoint. I need to know how can
> > > I show a bmp file (or any image file) as a splash screen when PowerPoint is
> > > launched?
> >
> > I doubt you can legally modify that.
> >
> > However, perhaps you could start your own application with its own splash
> > screen. It could launch PPT invisibly, then after a period of time make PPT
> > visible (there'd be no splash screen) and then quit.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> > PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> > PPTools: www.pptools.com
> > ================================================
> >
> >
> >
>

-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================