Self executing files

G

Guest

Hi

I want to put a ppt pres on a cd and make it self executing so that when the
end users put it in their machine, the pres automatically runs. Is there a
way to do that? Also, if there is a way, can it be done so that they don't
need to have the program resident on their machine?

thx.
JoAnne Sim in beautiful, sunny (finally) Ottawa, Canada.
 
G

Guest

wow you're fast. while waiting, i snooped around and found the "Package for
CD" feature. will this do the trick? will it include the viewer?

thx

Echo S said:
Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

JoAnne Sim said:
Hi

I want to put a ppt pres on a cd and make it self executing so that when the
end users put it in their machine, the pres automatically runs. Is there a
way to do that? Also, if there is a way, can it be done so that they don't
need to have the program resident on their machine?

thx.
JoAnne Sim in beautiful, sunny (finally) Ottawa, Canada.
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S

Sonia

Yes. It's always important to include the version of PowerPoint that you are
using. Package for CD was added in PowerPoint 2003.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

JoAnne Sim said:
wow you're fast. while waiting, i snooped around and found the "Package for
CD" feature. will this do the trick? will it include the viewer?

thx

Echo S said:
Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

JoAnne Sim said:
Hi

I want to put a ppt pres on a cd and make it self executing so that when the
end users put it in their machine, the pres automatically runs. Is there a
way to do that? Also, if there is a way, can it be done so that they don't
need to have the program resident on their machine?

thx.
JoAnne Sim in beautiful, sunny (finally) Ottawa, Canada.
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Echo S

JoAnne Sim said:
wow you're fast. while waiting, i snooped around and found the "Package for
CD" feature. will this do the trick? will it include the viewer?
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heh, some days the timing just works that way.

Package for CD will do exactly what you want.
http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm (included in that FAQ link I posted
earlier) gives you a quickie walkthrough for PPT 2003 (and 2002, for that
matter, but you don't need that part).

Do you have music or video or anything like that in your presentation?
 
G

Guest

as a matter of fact, I do have music that I want looped - it's a wma file and
get a message saying that ppt cannot insert a sound from the selected file -
I've checked the file and it plays fine in RealPlayer. any thoughts on that
one?
 
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Echo S

That's an entirely different question. I was actually asking about the music
because of linking issues. But you know, since you're using PPT 2003, it
doesn't really matter.

Regarding the WMA not playing, I'm going to guess it's a digital rights
issue. But maybe not. Where'd the file come from?
 
G

Guest

i hate to say it, but a cd. i'm making a memorial slide show for a colleague
whose husband passed away. it's one of his favourite pieces of music, and she
wanted it to play over a montage of photos of him. the sound worked when
another colleague inserted it on his machine. when he sent me the file, he
did so without including the clip. I tried re-inserting it, and that's where
I ran into difficulty.

Echo S said:
That's an entirely different question. I was actually asking about the music
because of linking issues. But you know, since you're using PPT 2003, it
doesn't really matter.

Regarding the WMA not playing, I'm going to guess it's a digital rights
issue. But maybe not. Where'd the file come from?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

JoAnne Sim said:
as a matter of fact, I do have music that I want looped - it's a wma file and
get a message saying that ppt cannot insert a sound from the selected file -
I've checked the file and it plays fine in RealPlayer. any thoughts on that
one?
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E

Echo S

JoAnne Sim said:
i hate to say it, but a cd. i'm making a memorial slide show for a colleague
whose husband passed away. it's one of his favourite pieces of music, and she
wanted it to play over a montage of photos of him.
Click to expand...

Sorry to hear it's for a sad occasion.
the sound worked when
another colleague inserted it on his machine.
when he sent me the file, he
did so without including the clip. I tried re-inserting it, and that's where
I ran into difficulty.
Click to expand...

If he didn't send you the clip, how are you reinserting it? Did you download
it from somewhere, or did he send the clip separately or something?

Anyway, try going to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try the WMA there.
Does it play or not?
 
G

Guest

thanks for the condolences and all your help with this.

he sent it to me after, and i tried to reinsert it then, (Insert > Movies &
sounds > sound from file) but with no luck. then I had him reinsert it on his
machine using the file I previously saved to our shared drive (we're on a
network) and resave it. everything went fine and the clip played from his
machine. when I open it up on mine, it doesn't play from ppt. it does,
however, when I double click it from explorer and boots up the media player.
I even changed the properties so that it boots up MS windows media player
rather than RealPlayer, but, nope, no such luck. If I can't get it to work
here, I don't want to give it over and have it not play at the service.
 
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Echo S

To add to my previous post, please create a folder on your C drive. Call it
Test or something. So you'll have C:\Test.

Copy both the presentation and the WMA file to that folder.

Now go to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try to play the WMA file that's
in your C:\Test folder. Does it play?
 
G

Guest

where do i find that?in ppt, or in explorer, or somewhere else?

Echo S said:
What happens if you do the start/run mplay32.exe test?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

JoAnne Sim said:
thanks for the condolences and all your help with this.

he sent it to me after, and i tried to reinsert it then, (Insert > Movies &
sounds > sound from file) but with no luck. then I had him reinsert it on his
machine using the file I previously saved to our shared drive (we're on a
network) and resave it. everything went fine and the clip played from his
machine. when I open it up on mine, it doesn't play from ppt. it does,
however, when I double click it from explorer and boots up the media player.
I even changed the properties so that it boots up MS windows media player
rather than RealPlayer, but, nope, no such luck. If I can't get it to work
here, I don't want to give it over and have it not play at the service.
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G

Guest

ok, i did all that, but sorry, i don't know what you mean by start/run. can
you please enlighten me? thx

Echo S said:
To add to my previous post, please create a folder on your C drive. Call it
Test or something. So you'll have C:\Test.

Copy both the presentation and the WMA file to that folder.

Now go to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try to play the WMA file that's
in your C:\Test folder. Does it play?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

JoAnne Sim said:
thanks for the condolences and all your help with this.

he sent it to me after, and i tried to reinsert it then, (Insert > Movies &
sounds > sound from file) but with no luck. then I had him reinsert it on his
machine using the file I previously saved to our shared drive (we're on a
network) and resave it. everything went fine and the clip played from his
machine. when I open it up on mine, it doesn't play from ppt. it does,
however, when I double click it from explorer and boots up the media player.
I even changed the properties so that it boots up MS windows media player
rather than RealPlayer, but, nope, no such luck. If I can't get it to work
here, I don't want to give it over and have it not play at the service.
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Echo S

Click the Start button at the lower left of your computer screen.

Click on the Run option.

Type in mplay32.exe

Click OK.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

JoAnne Sim said:
where do i find that?in ppt, or in explorer, or somewhere else?

Echo S said:
What happens if you do the start/run mplay32.exe test?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

JoAnne Sim said:
thanks for the condolences and all your help with this.

he sent it to me after, and i tried to reinsert it then, (Insert >
Click to expand...
Movies
&
sounds > sound from file) but with no luck. then I had him reinsert it
Click to expand...
on
his
machine using the file I previously saved to our shared drive (we're on a
network) and resave it. everything went fine and the clip played from his
machine. when I open it up on mine, it doesn't play from ppt. it does,
however, when I double click it from explorer and boots up the media player.
I even changed the properties so that it boots up MS windows media player
rather than RealPlayer, but, nope, no such luck. If I can't get it to work
here, I don't want to give it over and have it not play at the service.

:

i hate to say it, but a cd. i'm making a memorial slide show for a
colleague
whose husband passed away. it's one of his favourite pieces of
Click to expand...
music,
and
she
wanted it to play over a montage of photos of him.

Sorry to hear it's for a sad occasion.

the sound worked when
another colleague inserted it on his machine.
when he sent me the file, he
did so without including the clip. I tried re-inserting it, and that's
where
I ran into difficulty.

If he didn't send you the clip, how are you reinserting it? Did you download
it from somewhere, or did he send the clip separately or something?

Anyway, try going to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try the WMA there.
Does it play or not?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
K

Kathy J

Click your Start button on the task bar. The last entry on the right hand
column should be "Run..." :)

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

JoAnne Sim said:
ok, i did all that, but sorry, i don't know what you mean by start/run.
can
you please enlighten me? thx

Echo S said:
To add to my previous post, please create a folder on your C drive. Call
it
Test or something. So you'll have C:\Test.

Copy both the presentation and the WMA file to that folder.

Now go to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try to play the WMA file
that's
in your C:\Test folder. Does it play?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

JoAnne Sim said:
thanks for the condolences and all your help with this.

he sent it to me after, and i tried to reinsert it then, (Insert >
Movies &
sounds > sound from file) but with no luck. then I had him reinsert it
on his
machine using the file I previously saved to our shared drive (we're on
a
network) and resave it. everything went fine and the clip played from
his
machine. when I open it up on mine, it doesn't play from ppt. it does,
however, when I double click it from explorer and boots up the media player.
I even changed the properties so that it boots up MS windows media
player
rather than RealPlayer, but, nope, no such luck. If I can't get it to
work
here, I don't want to give it over and have it not play at the service.

:

i hate to say it, but a cd. i'm making a memorial slide show for a
colleague
whose husband passed away. it's one of his favourite pieces of
music, and
she
wanted it to play over a montage of photos of him.

Sorry to hear it's for a sad occasion.

the sound worked when
another colleague inserted it on his machine.
when he sent me the file, he
did so without including the clip. I tried re-inserting it, and
that's
where
I ran into difficulty.

If he didn't send you the clip, how are you reinserting it? Did you download
it from somewhere, or did he send the clip separately or something?

Anyway, try going to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try the WMA there.
Does it play or not?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
G

Guest

thanks - I'm at home now, and I've got windows XP here. Here I can see what
you mean. at work we're running Professional or something else (we're on a
network) - the start button looks like win 98.

Kathy J said:
Click your Start button on the task bar. The last entry on the right hand
column should be "Run..." :)

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

JoAnne Sim said:
ok, i did all that, but sorry, i don't know what you mean by start/run.
can
you please enlighten me? thx

Echo S said:
To add to my previous post, please create a folder on your C drive. Call
it
Test or something. So you'll have C:\Test.

Copy both the presentation and the WMA file to that folder.

Now go to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try to play the WMA file
that's
in your C:\Test folder. Does it play?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

thanks for the condolences and all your help with this.

he sent it to me after, and i tried to reinsert it then, (Insert >
Movies
&
sounds > sound from file) but with no luck. then I had him reinsert it
on
his
machine using the file I previously saved to our shared drive (we're on
a
network) and resave it. everything went fine and the clip played from
his
machine. when I open it up on mine, it doesn't play from ppt. it does,
however, when I double click it from explorer and boots up the media
player.
I even changed the properties so that it boots up MS windows media
player
rather than RealPlayer, but, nope, no such luck. If I can't get it to
work
here, I don't want to give it over and have it not play at the service.

:

i hate to say it, but a cd. i'm making a memorial slide show for a
colleague
whose husband passed away. it's one of his favourite pieces of
music,
and
she
wanted it to play over a montage of photos of him.

Sorry to hear it's for a sad occasion.

the sound worked when
another colleague inserted it on his machine.
when he sent me the file, he
did so without including the clip. I tried re-inserting it, and
that's
where
I ran into difficulty.

If he didn't send you the clip, how are you reinserting it? Did you
download
it from somewhere, or did he send the clip separately or something?

Anyway, try going to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try the WMA
there.
Does it play or not?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
E

Echo S

I think there's still a Run option when you click the Start button in Win98
or Win2000. You might try right-clicking the Start button -- Run might be a
choice there.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


JoAnne Sim said:
thanks - I'm at home now, and I've got windows XP here. Here I can see what
you mean. at work we're running Professional or something else (we're on a
network) - the start button looks like win 98.

Kathy J said:
Click your Start button on the task bar. The last entry on the right hand
column should be "Run..." :)

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

JoAnne Sim said:
ok, i did all that, but sorry, i don't know what you mean by start/run.
can
you please enlighten me? thx

:

To add to my previous post, please create a folder on your C drive. Call
it
Test or something. So you'll have C:\Test.

Copy both the presentation and the WMA file to that folder.

Now go to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try to play the WMA file
that's
in your C:\Test folder. Does it play?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

thanks for the condolences and all your help with this.

he sent it to me after, and i tried to reinsert it then, (Insert >
Movies
&
sounds > sound from file) but with no luck. then I had him reinsert it
on
his
machine using the file I previously saved to our shared drive (we're on
a
network) and resave it. everything went fine and the clip played from
his
machine. when I open it up on mine, it doesn't play from ppt. it does,
however, when I double click it from explorer and boots up the media
player.
I even changed the properties so that it boots up MS windows media
player
rather than RealPlayer, but, nope, no such luck. If I can't get it to
work
here, I don't want to give it over and have it not play at the service.

:

i hate to say it, but a cd. i'm making a memorial slide show for a
colleague
whose husband passed away. it's one of his favourite pieces of
music,
and
she
wanted it to play over a montage of photos of him.

Sorry to hear it's for a sad occasion.

the sound worked when
another colleague inserted it on his machine.
when he sent me the file, he
did so without including the clip. I tried re-inserting it, and
that's
where
I ran into difficulty.

If he didn't send you the clip, how are you reinserting it? Did you
download
it from somewhere, or did he send the clip separately or something?

Anyway, try going to Start/Run and type in mplay32.exe Try the WMA
there.
Does it play or not?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
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