Running a published presentation

[Reverand Mooney]

I have PowerPoint 2007 and Vista. When I publish a presentation to a CD and
someone copies those files to their computer, how do they get the
presentation to run? Click on the viewer exe file and it wants to know which
presentation to open. It seems like the only way is skip the publish option
and copy the original presentation and the viewer exe file seperatley and
then install the exe and open the presentation.

 

[Michael Koerner]

When you select the package for CD you have a number of options that you can
use. What did you have selected? Normally when the CD is inserted into the
computer it will automatically start to play your presentation.

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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


message I have PowerPoint 2007 and Vista. When I publish a presentation to a CD and
someone copies those files to their computer, how do they get the
presentation to run? Click on the viewer exe file and it wants to know which
presentation to open. It seems like the only way is skip the publish option
and copy the original presentation and the viewer exe file seperatley and
then install the exe and open the presentation.

 

[Reverand Mooney]

I tried it both ways, copy to folder and copy to CD. Looking at it now, I
dont see the PowerPoint itself. This is a big presentation 76 megabytes. I
tried publishing a smaller presentation and it worked fine. File size
matters? I want the person to be able to copy the presentation from a CD and
run it on their computer, that's the goal.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Using the copy to folder option is the way to go. Once you have copied it to
a folder. Burn the entire copy of the folder contents to the root directory
of your CD. this will put the viewer on the CD (unless you have changed that
option), and should automatically start the slideshow once the CD is
inserted.

If you want them to copy the presentation to their HD, they must have either
the full version of PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer installed on their
system.

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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


message I tried it both ways, copy to folder and copy to CD. Looking at it now, I
dont see the PowerPoint itself. This is a big presentation 76 megabytes. I
tried publishing a smaller presentation and it worked fine. File size
matters? I want the person to be able to copy the presentation from a CD and
run it on their computer, that's the goal.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Reverand Mooney]

Thank Michael. Do you know why the PowerPoint presentation itself would be
left out when it's copied to the folder? I suppose I could just copy the
presentation seperately.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Have no idea why the presentation was not copied to the folder. By default
it is supposed to be copied.

I only used the option once, just get all the needed files to run the
presentation. Now all I do is copy the presentation to the folder that was
created originally, and make any changes to the playlist.. So yes, you can
copy the presentation separately.

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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


message Thank Michael. Do you know why the PowerPoint presentation itself would be
left out when it's copied to the folder? I suppose I could just copy the
presentation seperately.