Play a stock ticker in front of a powerpoint presentation

I have a powerpoint presentation that I would like to have a stock ticker
running at the bottom of the screen in front of the presenation. Currently I
am using AOL Instant Messenger as my stock ticker. The problem is when I
take my powerpoint presentation to slide show mode, it goes in front of the
ticker.

Anyone know how I can get the ticker to run in front of the slide show. I am
in Mac OSX if that makes a difference.

Thanks

Rich

I ended up writing my own program to do it using c++ and making my ticker
the Top Most window.

<rhennosy@bigredrooster.com> wrote in message
news:BC5A95E0.27F%rhennosy@bigredrooster.com...
> I have a powerpoint presentation that I would like to have a stock ticker
> running at the bottom of the screen in front of the presenation. Currently
I
> am using AOL Instant Messenger as my stock ticker. The problem is when I
> take my powerpoint presentation to slide show mode, it goes in front of
the
> ticker.
>
> Anyone know how I can get the ticker to run in front of the slide show. I
am
> in Mac OSX if that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich
>

Does it need to be the real deal? Or would a "fake" ticker do, as an effect? Have a QT movie, animated gif or Flash file created to play in the PPT window.

If it is an web based (html, java) ticker you can use Shyam's LiveWeb addin
and put it on your slides but it gets interrupted when the slides change.

"linahan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does it need to be the real deal? Or would a "fake" ticker do, as an
effect? Have a QT movie, animated gif or Flash file created to play in the
PPT window.

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the capability that you are looking for without
resorting to add-ins, controls, etc.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that PowerPoint
should provide support for dynamically updating (live?) content spanning
multiple slides (e.g. tickers, timers/clocks, etc.), don't forget to send
your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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