PowerPoint 2003 & PowerPoint 2003 Viewer Questions

[John]

1. How do I make the right mouse click pop-up menu stop
appearing when I am running a presentation in PowerPoint
2003 Viewer and using an RF remote mouse to
advance/reverse the slides?

2. How do I run multiple presentations in PowerPoint 2003
& PowerPoint 2003 Viewer?

3. Is there a way to adjust the viewer settings and
presentation setting in PowerPoint 2003 Viewer?

 

[Echo S]

1. How do I make the right mouse click pop-up menu stop
appearing when I am running a presentation in PowerPoint
2003 Viewer and using an RF remote mouse to
advance/reverse the slides?

Tools/Options/View. Deselect Popup menu on right mouse click.

2. How do I run multiple presentations in PowerPoint 2003
& PowerPoint 2003 Viewer?

Do you want one right after the other, or do you need to link from one to
the other, or do you want to run two simultaneously, or what? Need more info
from you.

3. Is there a way to adjust the viewer settings and
presentation setting in PowerPoint 2003 Viewer?

Not sure what you're asking here, either, John. More info usually yields
better help. You might see what's available under Slide Show Setup Show in
PPT. Some of those settings will stick when you play the presentation in the
Viewer (kiosk mode, for example).

 

[Sonia]

The Tools > Options > View > Deselect Popup menu doesn't stick with the
presentation and there are no options available in the PowerPoint 2003
Viewer. The PowerPoint 97 Viewer does allow you to suppress the popup menu
on right click.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


Tools/Options/View. Deselect Popup menu on right mouse

click.

I understand you can do this in PowerPoint, one use to be
able to do this from PPT 97 Viewer as well. Is this
available in PPT 2003 Viewer?

Yes, I need to be able to go from one presentation to
another without interruption.

Do you want one right after the other, or do you need to link from one to
the other, or do you want to run two simultaneously, or what? Need more info
from you.


Not sure what you're asking here, either, John. More info usually yields
better help. You might see what's available under Slide Show Setup Show in
PPT. Some of those settings will stick when you play the presentation in the
Viewer (kiosk mode, for example).

One use to be able to do this from PPT 97 Viewer by going
Options/Viewer Settings or Options/Presentation Settings.
Is this available in PPT 2003 Viewer?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


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[Echo S]

Ahhh. Thanks for that clarification, Sonia. I didn't realize that you could
no longer do this in the 2003 Viewer.

 

[Echo S]

click.

I understand you can do this in PowerPoint, one use to be
able to do this from PPT 97 Viewer as well. Is this
available in PPT 2003 Viewer?

I thought you could still do this in the 2003 Viewer. But Sonia's corrected
me -- apparently this is no longer an option in the Viewer.

Yes, I need to be able to go from one presentation to
another without interruption.

PPT 2003 Viewer supports a playlist. Create a file in Notepad, and name it
playlist.txt

Then just list your presentations in it, for example:
Presentation1.ppt
holiday.ppt
calendar.ppt
Acme Anvils vs Wiley Coyote.ppt

Open the Viewer by going to Start/Run and browsing to the PPView.EXE file on
your system. Then add /L and the path to the playlist after it, e.g.,
"C:\pptview.exe" /L "C:\playlist.txt"

One use to be able to do this from PPT 97 Viewer by going
Options/Viewer Settings or Options/Presentation Settings.
Is this available in PPT 2003 Viewer?

I'm pretty sure the 2003 Viewer doesn't have any options to set.

Apologies for the misdirection on the right-click in my first reply.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint Viewer 2003 will always display a pop-up menu when an ALT+Click
is sent (via keyboard or remote control device). There is no option to
prevent this. One workaround is to save your presentation after specifying
"Browsed at a kiosk (full screen)" option in the "Set up show" dialog. Of
course, this would also require you to add your own navigation elements to
the slide (buttons for next slide, previous slide, etc.) which might not
work with some remote control devices.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions regarding
PowerPoint Viewer functionality, 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
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
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[TSgt John Clarke]

Mr. John Langhans

Why didn't Microsoft include the same features from the
PowerPoint 97 Viewer in the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer ?

TSgt John Clarke