Urgent help needed

[Guest]

Hi,

Just done an interactive Cd which is viewed through 97 pp viewer and shows a
pps 2000. Withi the presentation there are links to Word docs mainly
containing j-pegs.
The Word Docs is made in Word 2000. This is going to be replicated on 36000
CD rom business cards hence the urgent help. Recently in a presentation when
showing a similar presentation - all was well as the auto-run CD runs the
pesentation through the viewer, but when the Word Docs where launched through
the viewer it was opened in Word 2003 which is fine but it displayed the
dreaded virus warning. Can someone help by checking this out to see whether
a newer version of Word on a CD opening an older version brings out the virus
warning. I can get around this by putting as HTML page launching the Word
Docs or PDF files (PowerPoint does not display the warning when the hypelink
is pointed to an HTML file) but I rather not do that and have the links open
the files direct. Any help or suggestion is appreciated.

Ramin

 

[Luc]

Ramin,
Don't know if it will help in your case but have a read here:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00587.htm

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

Just done an interactive Cd which is viewed through 97 pp viewer and shows a
pps 2000. Withi the presentation there are links to Word docs mainly
containing j-pegs.
The Word Docs is made in Word 2000. This is going to be replicated on 36000
CD rom business cards hence the urgent help. Recently in a presentation when
showing a similar presentation - all was well as the auto-run CD runs the
pesentation through the viewer, but when the Word Docs where launched through
the viewer it was opened in Word 2003 which is fine but it displayed the
dreaded virus warning.

Too many "its" here. Let me see if I have this right:

You have links to Word .DOC files in your presentation.
When the user clicks one of the links and Word 2003 is installed on their
system, Word itself displays a virus warning.

Is that correct? What is the wording of the warning? Have you verified that
there are no macros in the .DOC files? What happens if they launch the .DOC
files by doubleclicking them directly from the CD rather than by clicking a link
from the PPT show?



Can someone help by checking this out to see whether

 

[Guest]

Too many "its" here. Let me see if I have this right:

You have links to Word .DOC files in your presentation.
When the user clicks one of the links and Word 2003 is installed on their
system, Word itself displays a virus warning.

Is that correct? What is the wording of the warning? Have you verified that
there are no macros in the .DOC files? What happens if they launch the .DOC
files by doubleclicking them directly from the CD rather than by clicking a link
from the PPT show?



Can someone help by checking this out to see whether

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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Hi Steve,

There are no macros. I don't have both versions of Word on my computer to
test this out. This happened on a presentation and was asking the help of
the forum to see whether if they create a ppt. presentation with link to a
word file 2000 on a CD
seen through ppviewr 97 then put in a machine with 0ffice 2003 will when
clicking on the word file whether this brings up the dreaded office virus
warning.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Ramin

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

There are no macros. I don't have both versions of Word on my computer to
test this out. This happened on a presentation and was asking the help of
the forum to see whether if they create a ppt. presentation with link to a
word file 2000 on a CD
seen through ppviewr 97 then put in a machine with 0ffice 2003 will when
clicking on the word file whether this brings up the dreaded office virus
warning.

If you could answer the other questions I asked, it might shed some more light on
things. Thanks. It's a bit difficult to replicate the specific situation,
obviously.