Need to hyperlink from word to a .PPS so that it will autostart

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I'm trying to hyperlink from word to a .PPS but it wont auto sart - is there
a way to get it to start automatically from the hyperlink. Better still is
there a way to select the specific slide it should start on.

Thanks
MervB
:-)
 
From word you will need to hold the CRTL key down to activate the hyperlink

If this is what you are doing, but the presentation is opening in edit mode,
than you file associations are corrupted. This can be fixed by reading and
following:
**Changing a File Association, Repairing broken File Associations
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00355.htm

To start on a specific slide, append the '#' sign and the slide number to
the end of the hyperlink.
C:\Path\Presentation Name.pps#5


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Thanks Bill - I thought that would do the trick but it still doesn't work -
it still comes up in edit mode and I need to manually select 'Full Screen'
form the 'Browse' menu to get it working - this is no good for my purpose. Is
there an auto start macro I could put in that automatically starts the .pps
in full screen show mode?

Thanks for your help
 
So what happens when you ...

-Select an object
-Right click and select Action Settings
-On the MouseClick menu, click next to the Hyperlink to option
-Select Other PowerPoint Presentation from the pulldown
-Navigate to the PPS presentation
-Select a slide from the list
-OK out of the dialogs.

Does the presentation open in Internet Explorer or PowerPoint?
In Edit View or in Show View?

On my system, when the object is clicked on during a show, the linked show
is immediately brought up in the full-screen show view. This is normal
behavior. What is yours doing?

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Thanks bill:
It opens in PowerPoint but not fullscreen (ie. It has menubar and status bar
etc) and doesn't recognise mouse clicks - works OK with PageUp PageDown keys.

I've working on a jerrimander in a Word macro that will open the PowerPoint
presentation and run a powerpoint macro - I'm hoping to write a macro that
wil force the presentation into full screen. It goes something like this:

Sub PPTTest()
Dim PPT As Object
Set PPT = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
Documents("test.doc").Hyperlinks(1).Follow
' Note that the file name and the module
' name are required to path the macro correctly.
PPT.Run "'PPTAutomation.ppt!Module1.AutomationTest'"
End Sub

In this case I'm working with a .ppt but believe it will work on a .pps

The steps you asked "what happens" is for a hyperlink between two PowerPoint
presentations - and in this case all works well - but I'm doing a hyperlink
between from Word to PowerPoint.

This is annoying - I've brought my laptop to work this morning and later in
the day will test it on that - just to see if there is something in the
Desktop setup that is causing a problem.

Thanks for your interest, much appreciated.
 
Merv,

Normally, linking to or otherwise launching a PPS in any way will open it in full
screen mode. The fact that it doesn't (on your system) suggests that there's
probably something amiss ON your system.

I'd be inclined to track down the problem and squish it rather than beating on it
with vb code.

What happens when you double click a PPS file?
 
I agree Steve but have not been able to trace it.

Double Click on file in Windows Explorer works find - comes up fullscreen

Thanks
MervB
:-)
 
I agree Steve but have not been able to trace it.

Double Click on file in Windows Explorer works find - comes up fullscreen
Click to expand...

Ah. I didn't realize that ... well. Dang.
I wonder if it'd work better if you simply shellexecute the PPS from your Word macro?

Here's something that Word MVP Jonathan West posted in one of the Word groups
recently:

Paste the following into a separate module

Option Explicit

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, _
ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

Public Function OpenDoc(ByVal DocFile As String) As Long
OpenDoc = ShellExecute(0&, "open", DocFile, vbNullString, vbNullString,
vbNormalFocus)
End Function

If you pass a full pathname to the OpenDoc function, it will open the file
using its default application, whatever that might be. You can use this to
open a file of any type in its host application."
 
Thanks Steve - that looks promising - I'll give it a go and let you know what
happens.

Thanks
mervB
:-)
 
You flaming little ripper - I mean Poop! - I mean Dang!!!

That did the trick - thanks Steve.

MervB
:-)
 
Steve, could I be a real nuisance and ask one more thing.

Is there any way to modify this function so I can specify a starting slide
or custom show.

I seem to get stuck on the system trying to run the select macros before
allowing the viewer to enable macros.

Thanks MervB
:-)
 
Merv, glad it worked for you ...

Steve, could I be a real nuisance
no

and ask one more thing.
Click to expand...

yes

;-)

No nuisance, fire away.
Is there any way to modify this function so I can specify a starting slide
or custom show.
Click to expand...

Try passing it "c:\mypath\myfile.pps#42" to start on slide 42.
I'm not sure that'll work but it seems the most likely way to do it.
 
Thanks Echo S,

I'll chase it up during the day - I've got some very interesting feedback
and assistance from everyone Bill, Steve and Echo S) - thanks everyone.
 
I posted similar question and got a response that works. Insert, Object,
Create From File, Browse to and select file, Click Show as Icon, Click Change
Icon, select the icon you want and name it or type something like >, and when
you click on the icon it will open your pps in presentation mode. If you can
tolerate the icon, it is a workable solution. There may be a way to set the
file location to a slide #, but I do not know how to do that.

Roy
 
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