Display PowerPoint Presentation

C

Chuck

I have a PowerPoint slide show that I embed into one of my tables as on OLE
object. I want to display this presentation when the user clicks a command
button. What is the best way to do this?

Thanks!
 
J

John Nurick

Hi Chuck,

The best way (in my opinion) is not to embed the slide show at all.
Instead, leave it (or them) in a file (files) as usual and just store
the name and location of the file in a text field in your table (let's
call it SlideShow). Then, assuming the commandbutton's on a form that is
bound to this table, and there's a textbox txtSlideShow that is bound to
the field, all you need in the button's Click event procedure is:

Application.FollowHyperlink Me.txtSlideShow.Value

If you want to use embedded OLE objects, the least complicated approach
is to use a BoundObjectFrame control on your form, bound to the OLE
field. Then have the commandbutton do something like this (bofSlideShow
is the name of the object frame):

bofSlideShow.Verb = acOLEVerbOpen
bofSlideShow.Action = acOLEActivate
 

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