New Viewer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint

  • Thread starter Thread starter Richard Bretschneider \(MS\)
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Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Thanks so much.

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-----Original Message-----
Hello, I'm the lead program manager for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.
Back in April I wrote to tell you about an exciting new PowerPoint Viewer we
were working on. Its my pleasure now to announce that we finished work a
short while ago, and that it is today available for download.

This new viewer has been engineered to support a number of new features from
our last few releases that were missing in the PowerPoint '97 Viewer.
Specifically, we've added support for the new animation effects,
simultaneous animations, and transitions. We've also added a number of
non-animation features, such as opening password protected documents. A new
twist here is that this viewer requires no installation, no setup of any
kind, and can run directly from write-protected media like CDs. This was
very important as the new viewer is a big part of the Package for CD feature
in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, which I hope you'll check out when it
becomes available in a few weeks. We're very happy with the results and
hope you will be as well.

The viewer has just been posted, and is not yet linked into the Microsoft
Office web pages, so you'll have to search the
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads section
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for "powerpoint 2003 viewer" to
 
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! This is great news!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kathy (who unfortunately doesn't have anyone to share the great news with
until tomorow, but is thrilled just to know that it exists!!!!!)
 
Well, first of all good news, thanks!

But still disappointing to see that active x included are not supported.

Is there ANY way I can control the powerpoint viewer from another program
(through active scripting or so).
Also, can I skip the Splashscreen when calling a presentation?

TIA

TW.
 
Hello TIA,

|
| But still disappointing to see that active x included are not supported.
|
| Is there ANY way I can control the powerpoint viewer from another program
| (through active scripting or so).
| Also, can I skip the Splashscreen when calling a presentation?
|

There is not support for ActiveX and there is no object model exposed so
there is no way to control the viewer from another program.

However, you can skip the splashscreen by using a command line to launch
the viewer. Example:

<path>pptview.exe /s <path><filename>

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of any included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
 
Hello David,

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| Does this new viewer support a playlist? How?
|

Yes, the new viewer does support opening playlists, but only from a command
line. Here's an example:

<path>pptview.exe /L playlst.txt

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of any included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
 
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