can you set up a powerpoint to auto play a presentation?

[Guest]

I have created a powerpoint presentation that includes narration of the
slides with sound files. Is there a way to get it to automatically play from
a CD when it is placed in a drive? (as opposed to using the pack & go, which
you must install it on the computer). I want to use this as a promotional
disk for our Little League fund rasing... the idea is to just pop it in the
drive & have it play...

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have created a powerpoint presentation that includes narration of the
slides with sound files. Is there a way to get it to automatically play from
a CD when it is placed in a drive? (as opposed to using the pack & go, which
you must install it on the computer). I want to use this as a promotional
disk for our Little League fund rasing... the idea is to just pop it in the
drive & have it play...

Have a look here:

Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

Another, possibly less fiddly, method would be to save the presentation as a
single *.MHT file web page (assuming your version of PPT can do this) and use
the same AutoRun strategy outlined in the page above and the pages it links to
to launch the MHT file automatically.

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem, have you found a solution?

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

This should help:

Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm


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Glen Millar
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www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

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[Darrell S]

I have the same problem, have you found a solution?

You can't set that up. The problem is the user has to have HIS/HER computer
set up for autoplay and you can't control that. They also have to have at
least PPT Viewer on their computer and have autoplay set up to use that if
the CD has a .ppt or .pps file. I always add a text file on the CD with
instructions on how to run the PPT program and include a copy of PPT Viewer
just in case the user doesn't have it on his/her computer. On the CD itself
I write a note to read the text file for using the CD. The text file tells
how to install the PPT Viewer, if necessary, and which file on the CD to
double click in Explorer to run the program if autoplay is not set up.