Launching powerpoint automatically

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rubarb

This is what I was trying to ask in the last post and probably did not ask it
correctly:

I was asked to provide a file that "must be a read-only powerpoint file that
launches directly as a slideshow, BUT it must have the ".ppt" extension.

Does anyone know how to do this?
 
M

Michael Koerner

If you only have the PowerPoint viewer then you can do what you want.
Regardless of the extension it will open in the slideshow mode.

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| This is what I was trying to ask in the last post and probably did not ask
it
| correctly:
|
| I was asked to provide a file that "must be a read-only powerpoint file
that
| launches directly as a slideshow, BUT it must have the ".ppt" extension.
|
| Does anyone know how to do this?
 
K

Kathy Jacobs

It depends on your definition of "launches directly as a slide show." :) If
you are using Windows XP (I don't know about earlier versions), you can
right click the ppt file and select Show. The presentation will launch as a
show.

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rubarb

Kathy, Thanks for your reply. We are using Windows XP and thanks for the tip
about "right-clicking" to show the slide show. I didn't know that. However, I
don't think that is what our client wants. I was requested to create a slide
presentation in powerpoint. This file will then be uploaded to a website. The
client wants a .ppt file (not .pps) that will open in the "slide show" view.
They also want the file to be "read only". Is this possible?
 
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