Desktop Shortcut to Slide Show View

G

Guest

I've written a presentation and put it onto one of our salesmen's laptops. I
would like to set a shortcut so that when he opens the presentation from his
Desktop, as soon as he goes into it, it automatically appears in Slide Show
view. I know I've done this before, but can't now remember how. Can anyone
help? Thanks.
 
L

Luc

Sue,
Save the presentation as a show, in the save as dialog, in the save as list
choose PowerPoint show *.pps.
Make the shortcut to his desktop. The presentation should start immediately
upon doubleclicking it.
 
D

David M. Marcovitz

The eaisest thing is to save this as a PowerPoint Show. This can be done
simply by changnig the .ppt at the end of the file name to .pps (but if you
don't have file extensions showing, you can't do this). The other way to do
this is to open the presentation and choose Save As from the File menu. In
the Save As type, click and scroll down (it doesn't show on the first few
entries that are displayed) and choose PowerPoint Show (*.pps).
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
 

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