lockout of keys to advance slides while viewing?

[Mr . .]

I want to be able to have a powerpoint show open and run without the viewer
being able to advance the show manually at all (no arrow keys, mouse
buttons, space bar, etc). The slides would advance based on timing, some
slides narrated and other slides would have short video clips in them to
auto run prior to the next slide advancing.

The last slide would have a hyperlink to an email that the person could use
to send me an email informing me that the "training" was completed.

Any ideas?

 

[Chirag]

Do the following:
1. Select "Slide Show" | "Set Up Show..." menu item.
2. Select "Browsed at a kiosk (full screen)" option.
3. Click OK button.

The slide show will now respond to Escape key only, which will take you out
of of the slide show.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

 

[Mr . .]

Outstanding!!! Thanks!

Anyway to get a hyper link to auto send an email with a set subject line,
and have it be sent without allowing any changes? (sent automatically once
the link is clicked?)

 

[Chirag]

You can add the textbox from the Control Toolbox (select "View" | "Toolbars"
| "Control Toolbox" menu item). This will allow users to type text in the
box during slide show. The following macro will help you send email through
Outlook:

---
Sub SendEmailUsingOutlook()
Dim OLKA As Outlook.Application
Dim MI As Outlook.MailItem

Set OLKA = New Outlook.Application
Set MI = OLKA.CreateItem(olMailItem)
MI.To = "(e-mail address removed)"
MI.Subject = "Hello World"
MI.Body = "Hi"
MI.Send
Set MI = Nothing
Set OLKA = Nothing
End Sub
---

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

 

[Mr . .]

I tried the code below, and set a macro to run when the hyperlink it
clicked. However, it does not send anything.

 

[Chirag]

Probably the macro did not run at all. Check the Macro security settings
(select "Tools" | "Macros" | "Security..." menu item, set the security level
to "Medium"). You might want to restart PowerPoint after making this change.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html