Combine separate slides using command line

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paul

I have a .ppt file with 50 slides. I have a DB where users specify
which slides they want, usually 1 or 2, and a script that automatically
sends it out once a week.

The easy solution was to separate each market into a separate file.
Then, in the script, I loop through and attach each slide that they
requested. The problem with this is that the size becomes very large,
and the users don't want to get multiple slides. It would be ideal to
combine the individual slides that they requested and send them the 1
file. So, I'm trying to determine if this is feasible. I was thinking
that I can 1) open the presentation and save just the selected slides,
and then send that to the user, or 2) combine the individual slides
into one and send it to the user.

I would appreciate any help on this. Right now I just need to know if
it's possible. Later, I can figure out how to do it.

Thanks for any help.

- PR
 
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John Wilson

Maybe Ive got this wrong but couldn't you just open a new pres.
insert>slides from files - choose the slides required with ctrl click and
away you go?
 
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paul

To explain it a little more, I have a website where people can register
and select what information they want to receive. A VB script runs
once a week and sends them their weekly information as a powerpoint
presentation. The master PPT file is 20 Mb, and they only want to view
the information they selected. Right now, I have a macro that will
split the master file into individual PPT files each containing 1
slide. So now, the script will send the email and attach each slide of
information they selected. This works great but with one problem. If
someone selects two slised, then they receive two individual slides.
They want it to only send one .PPT file that contains two slides, not
two separate .PPT files each with one slide.

I could do this manually, that's trivial. The problem is that this
goes out to 500 people and the number of combinations is almost
endless. I need to do this somehow from a command line where I can
open Powerpoint, run a macro to save only the slides I need (or create
a new file by adding the individual slides they requested), and save it
to a temporary file so that I can attach it to an email and send it
out.

What I have now works, but I'm simple attaching multiple PPT files to
the email. I'm not trying to determing if it's possible to send out
just one .PPT file if someone selects to receive more than one slide.

I hope this helps. I'm still just trying to figure out if this can be
done. It sounds simple enough, and I'm able to do it with .PDF files.
And again, the end result here is to do this from a command line prompt
or a VB script.

Thanks again!

- PR
 
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