Browse by title in Internet Explorer

[Guest]

Hi,

We've used previous versions of Powerpoint presentations on our intranet,
which allowed users to select Browse > By Title from the menu bar to select
individual slides.

However, since moving to Office 2003/Windows XP, this functionality seems to
have disappeared (instead we see a greyed-out option to "Go to slide" where
"By title" used to appear on the Browse menu.

Is there a way to re-enable this?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We've used previous versions of Powerpoint presentations on our intranet,

which allowed users to select Browse > By Title from the menu bar to select
individual slides.

However, since moving to Office 2003/Windows XP, this functionality seems to
have disappeared (instead we see a greyed-out option to "Go to slide" where
"By title" used to appear on the Browse menu.

Curious.

Here, if the slides have titles, I can choose Go To Slide and pick the slide
title directly from a list that pops up. If there are no slide titles, I get a
list like

1 Slide 1
2 Slide 2
and so on

But in both cases, the "Go to Slide" option is available, not grayed out.

The one obvious difference is that I'm opening files directly in PowerPoint.
What happens if you do that rather than open them via whatever interface your
intranet supplies?

 

[Guest]

Steve,

Our users open the Powerpoint file directly within Internet Explorer. When
this happens, the IE menu bar changes to include a Browse menu.

I'm thinking it might have more to do with the newer version of IE that
rolled out with XP at the same time as Office 2003, rather than Powerpoint
itself?

Cheers,

Matt

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve,

Our users open the Powerpoint file directly within Internet Explorer. When
this happens, the IE menu bar changes to include a Browse menu.

Ah. I see. And I see the same thing here when I start MSIE and use File, Open
to open the PPT file.

Not sure why the Go To Slide button should be grayed in this case.

To add one more item to the stack of reasons why opening documents in a
browser is guaranteed to make users punch holes in the wall, perhaps? <g>