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JoeB
Hi Glenna,
After much testing on PCs of various vintages -- all with the same broadband
connection --, I've determined that using a pps file rather than "Saving as
Web Page" gives more flexibility. To wit:
1. It is browser independent. I've run the presentation on both MSIE and
Firefox -- haven't tried others, because these 2 comprise over 90% of the
market share of users.
2. It gives a better screen presentation. It just plain looks better on all
PCs I've tested (4), and on both browsers.
Taking your advice (also offered by Steve Rindsberg), I loaded the pps file
on my website, and downloaded PowerPoint viewer -- 2003 version -- to the 2
older PCs in my testing universe. The result was significantly better than
trying to run the slideshow by various means utilizing the viewer that I
uploaded to my website -- and even running it against an older version of
PowerPoint that was on 1 of the PCs. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
However,l there is still 1 challenge that I really NEED to solve:
When running the pps from PowerPoint rather than the viewer, individual
slides can be replayed -- with animation and sound -- by placing a blank
slide with 0 slide transition time before each; and, then linking to the
preceding blank slide to replay the slide with content. Thanks to Sonia
Coleman for this neat trick.
When running the same pps from the viewer, clicking the "Replay" button on
any content slide, pulls up the corresponding blank slide before it, but it
hangs up on the blank slide -- no transition, NADA!!
I've come up with an initial "solution," but it's not elegant programming.
Place a 2nd copy of the PPS in the folder; then, when the "Replay" button is
clicked, link to the blank slide preceding the corrseponding content slide in
the 2nd file. It's UGLY, and it only works once. Subsequent tries hang on the
blank slide, and we're back where we started from. Since I change hats from
application devleoper to user quite often, it occurs to me that the universe
of potential viewers would probably find it useful to be able to replay
slides (with animation and sound) in case they missed a piece of information.
If you know of a better solution, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Again,
I completely understand if you choose not to respond.
Thanks for all of your help,
Joe
After much testing on PCs of various vintages -- all with the same broadband
connection --, I've determined that using a pps file rather than "Saving as
Web Page" gives more flexibility. To wit:
1. It is browser independent. I've run the presentation on both MSIE and
Firefox -- haven't tried others, because these 2 comprise over 90% of the
market share of users.
2. It gives a better screen presentation. It just plain looks better on all
PCs I've tested (4), and on both browsers.
Taking your advice (also offered by Steve Rindsberg), I loaded the pps file
on my website, and downloaded PowerPoint viewer -- 2003 version -- to the 2
older PCs in my testing universe. The result was significantly better than
trying to run the slideshow by various means utilizing the viewer that I
uploaded to my website -- and even running it against an older version of
PowerPoint that was on 1 of the PCs. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
However,l there is still 1 challenge that I really NEED to solve:
When running the pps from PowerPoint rather than the viewer, individual
slides can be replayed -- with animation and sound -- by placing a blank
slide with 0 slide transition time before each; and, then linking to the
preceding blank slide to replay the slide with content. Thanks to Sonia
Coleman for this neat trick.
When running the same pps from the viewer, clicking the "Replay" button on
any content slide, pulls up the corresponding blank slide before it, but it
hangs up on the blank slide -- no transition, NADA!!
I've come up with an initial "solution," but it's not elegant programming.
Place a 2nd copy of the PPS in the folder; then, when the "Replay" button is
clicked, link to the blank slide preceding the corrseponding content slide in
the 2nd file. It's UGLY, and it only works once. Subsequent tries hang on the
blank slide, and we're back where we started from. Since I change hats from
application devleoper to user quite often, it occurs to me that the universe
of potential viewers would probably find it useful to be able to replay
slides (with animation and sound) in case they missed a piece of information.
If you know of a better solution, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Again,
I completely understand if you choose not to respond.
Thanks for all of your help,
Joe