Echo autorun/linked presentations.

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Jeff Playter

Echo, thank you for the instructions on how to create an autorun cd. It
works great. I did notice that it does not support the use of linked
presentations after I put all of the work into the building of the cd.

My question is this. Is there any easy/free autorun cd programs or
instructions out there that will support hyperlinked or
PowerPoint-to-PowerPoint links?

Thanks again!

Jeff
 
Jeff, if there is an issue it's with the Viewer and how you created the
links, not with the CD or Echo's instructions. You need to create your link
by going to Action Settings and selecting "Other PowerPoint Presentation"
from the drop down menu. That should work in the Viewer. Is that the way
that you created the links?
 
Yes sonia, that is how I created the links.

here is my structure.
I have a "Hub" presentation, it then is linked to a multitude of other
presentations. I have the "Hub" presentation at the root level with the
autorun.inf. Then the links point other presentations that are within
another folder. They are all PowerPoint Shows. (pps) Could that be the
issue?
 
This is the error that I get "The address of this site is not valid. Check
the address and try again."

I converted the pps's to ppt's and tried that.

I put the cd in one of my cd rom players and opened the powerpoint in edit
mode, the link was looking for D:\presentation name

Then I put it in another cd rom player and opened the powerpoint in edit
mode, the link then went to E:\presentation name.... So I know the link
isn't a hard path.

I'm trying to give you as much information as I can.


Thanks!
 
One more thing Sonia, this is where I got the information that it doesn't
support linked presentations. It's right on Echo's website.

"NOTES:
This procedure only works if you have a CD-ROM burner or
access to a CD-ROM burner.
This method does not fully install the PowerPoint Viewer 97.
Therefore, the following features are not available:

- Hyperlinking to other PowerPoint presentations.
- Hyperlinking to Internet Web Sites."

Am I S.O.L.?
 
You are reading from discontinued and unsupported information that used to
be on the Microsoft website and refers to the old Viewer. I'm not sure why
that particular article says that, because I've been creating autorun CD's
with the old Viewer for several years and it *does* support hyperlinking to
other PowerPoint presentations. Maybe I skimmed it too quickly and there's
something in the content that explains their caveat.

Was the second presentation in the same folder as the main presentation?
Did you then put the other presentation on the CD in the same location as
the main presentation? BTW, remember that if you make any change to the
presentation names, you'll need to change the link in the main presentation,
save it, and then recreate your CD with all of the new versions of the
files.

Finally, don't use Insert > Hyperlink to link to the other presentation(s).
Use Action Settings > Hyperlink To > Other Presentation.
 
Hi, Jeff.

It's interesting that the article says this. As Sonia explained, MS
didn't ever really fully support running from CD with the PPT Viewer,
which is probably why they pulled all those articles.

At any rate, try Sonia's suggestions. She's the most
Viewer-knowledgeable person around!
 
Finally, don't use Insert > Hyperlink to link to the other presentation(s).
Use Action Settings > Hyperlink To > Other Presentation.
Click to expand...

Hi Sonia:
I apologize for pushing this to the limit, but you may have solved a
problem for me with the above answer.

Problem:
I have a 10.5 MB- 350 + slides PPT presentation and I want to give it
to some people who would use the PPT 97 Viewer.

I discovered that the PPT 97 Viewer has a limit of 100 or 101 slides
before a certain problem occurs. I've tested this problem
extensively.

Once your PPT presentation exceeds the limit, your GO to Title
function does not work properly and you can't jump to titles after the
limit. However, the PPT presentation works fine if you move from one
slide to the next sequentially.

I created 4 smaller linked files from the original that were = or <
100 slides each, and then tested them with the PPT 97 Viewer on my
hard drive. But, the 97 Viewer said it can't run linked files.

When I tried your method: Use Action Settings > Hyperlink To > Other
Presentation, it worked perfectly using a visible Action Button.

Is there any way of using the PPT 97 viewer for linked files without
the audience seeing you click on an a visible action button?

I could make a nice looking button but I was hoping to show a seamless
Presentation.
 
See Taj's tutorial for seamless linking at
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm.

FYI: I think that the limit that you may have hit is that PowerPoint has a
limited number of space for storing hyperlinks. The longer (more
characters) each link is, the more space is used. Since presentation name
and slide title are part of the link value when linking to other
presentations, you might be able to get a lot more links to work in one
presentation by shortening the name of the presentation and the slide
titles.
 
When I tried your method: Use Action Settings > Hyperlink To > Other
Presentation, it worked perfectly using a visible Action Button.

Is there any way of using the PPT 97 viewer for linked files without
the audience seeing you click on an a visible action button?
Click to expand...

Anything you can draw can be assigned an action - it doesn't have to be an
action button.

For one client, we put two rectangles on each slide, one covering the right
half, the other covering the left. Right half got a Next Slide action setting,
left half got a Previous slide action setting. Both were given no fill, no
outline so they became invisible (which doesn't work in the NewerViewer but
should be fine in Viewer 97). Click anywhere in the right half of the slide to
advance, or in the left half to go back.
 
Many thanks again.

Every little bit helps.


See Taj's tutorial for seamless linking at
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm.

FYI: I think that the limit that you may have hit is that PowerPoint has a
limited number of space for storing hyperlinks. The longer (more
characters) each link is, the more space is used. Since presentation name
and slide title are part of the link value when linking to other
presentations, you might be able to get a lot more links to work in one
presentation by shortening the name of the presentation and the slide
titles.
Click to expand...
 
Thanks for the idea.

I thought of something along those lines, but I didn't want the
audience to see the mouse arrow that you must click on the
transparent button or your rectangle.

On the other hand, I don't think the audience would notice if I moved
my mouse just to the bottom of a full page rectangle and then clicked.
 
For all who cares. I moved everything off of our remote network and relinked
everything locally the same way I did from the beginning. It's working fine
now. I don't know why it wouldn't work from the file built on the network.
The paths weren't looking for the network???

Oh well... it's working. I'm happy.

Thanks for all of your help.
 
I thought of something along those lines, but I didn't want the
audience to see the mouse arrow that you must click on the
transparent button or your rectangle.

On the other hand, I don't think the audience would notice if I moved
my mouse just to the bottom of a full page rectangle and then clicked.
Click to expand...

Or leave the mouse out of the picture (literally and metaphorically <g>)
You can TAB from action setting to action setting -- if there's only the one Next
Slide action setting, Tab, Enter should move things along nicely.

And for that matter, if you put a *visible* rectangle on the slide master, assign
it the Next Slide action setting, then drag it off the slide, it won't appear in
slide show mode, but Tab, Enter will activate it.
 
Thanks:

I'll put that trick into my tool bag.

As my father-in-law used to say: "Where there's a will, there's
usually a... relative."
 
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