Video acting differently in PowerPoint 2000 vs PP viewer 2003

[Guest]

Is there a reason why videos that start up automatically with a key stroke
(enter or down arrow) in PPT2000, will not in Viewer2003? The video needs a
mouse click to advance. I would tell the end user just to use the mouse to
advance the presentation, but after the video ends, a mouse click restarts it
and it requires a keystroke to get to the next slide. Is there a work
around?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Is there a reason why videos that start up automatically with a key stroke
(enter or down arrow) in PPT2000, will not in Viewer2003? The video needs a
mouse click to advance. I would tell the end user just to use the mouse to
advance the presentation, but after the video ends, a mouse click restarts it
and it requires a keystroke to get to the next slide. Is there a work
around?

It's a bug in Viewer2003 that prevents from automatically playing suonds/movies
inserted in PPT2000.

If possible, open the presentation in PPT2002 or 2003 and resave. That's
supposed to fix it.

 

[Sonia]

The other work around is to use the PowerPoint 97 Viewer instead. It is
available at http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx

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