Opening PowerPoint shows from a web page.

[Guest]

I recently wanted to place some PowerPoint shows on a website for students to
download. When I tried linking to the shows in an html document and opened
the html document in a browser, I got the usual window with buttons to Open,
Save and Cancel the action. The Save and Cancel options work as expected.
However, when I Open a show, PowerPoint opens displaying the show so that I
can edit it and save the changed document--it doesn't just play the show as
happens if I right click and use Open With... Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
Is there a way to save PowerPoint shows on a website so that they Play when
the Open option is used rather than opening in PowerPoint itself?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I recently wanted to place some PowerPoint shows on a website for students to
download. When I tried linking to the shows in an html document and opened
the html document in a browser, I got the usual window with buttons to Open,
Save and Cancel the action. The Save and Cancel options work as expected.
However, when I Open a show, PowerPoint opens displaying the show so that I
can edit it and save the changed document--it doesn't just play the show as
happens if I right click and use Open With... Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
Is there a way to save PowerPoint shows on a website so that they Play when
the Open option is used rather than opening in PowerPoint itself?

Most of what happens here will depend on the user's browser settings and the
verison of PPT or the viewer they have on their computer. This explains at
least some of the variables (though I'm sure some new ones have been added with
PPT 2007 and Vista):

Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00189.htm

 

[William_Peterson via OfficeKB.com]

It happens to me! Very strange!
And I tried a lot of ways to set broswer options, but nothing changed.