Powerpoint 2000 Slide Transition

[Guest]

One of our users has a presentation created in Powerpoint 2000. They had the
media people add sound to it and burn it to a CD so that others can view it
in their browsers. I believe this was done using Microsoft Powerpoint
Producer 2003.

When playing it, the sound is fine and the presentation begins, but when
it's time for the next slide, they get a pop-up asking them to install the
Microsoft Office Animation Runtime.

If they answering "no", the presentation continues as it should, although
they have to go through this with every slide transition. Answering "yes"
takes them to the Microsoft site to download the product, but that fails upon
validation, the reason displayed being that it cannot find Powerpoint 2002 or
2003.

It is unlikely that any of the people viewing this will have Powerpoint
2003. They will either have Powerpoint 2000 or no Powerpoint at all. The
presentation runs fine without the add-in -- but we can't get the pop-up to
stop.

Is there any solution to this? Thanks.

 

[Echo S]

Head to
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx and
post your question in the Producer group, Karen. I think you'll probably get
better answers there.

I know I'm sitting here thinking that when you convert a PPT 2002 or 2003
file to a web page, users without PPT 2002 or 2003 may need to install the
Animation Runtime in order to see the animations work as intended. But I'm
not sure why that would be cropping up in a Producer file, unless it's just
a general HTML issue.

Besides, even if the Producer file needed the user to install the Animation
Runtime, it doesn't make any sense that the Runtime is looking for PPT 2002
or 2003 in order to install -- because that's the whole point of the
Runtime -- to let those without 2002/2003 view the animations in the HTML
file!