Power Point Slideshows in emails

[Deb]

Hello!

This question was posted by another member back in May, but didn't receive
an answer due to lack of System information. I would like to create the same
type of invitation, and am using Windows XP/Outlook 2003

Bill's question was:
presentation but a show. may i please know how i will embed the pps file and
automatically run the pps by just opening the email and not the attachment?<<

I know it can be done, since one of the secretaries at the company did just
that back in December. She is no longer here, so I cannot ask her...

Thanks in Advance!

 

[Gordon]

Hello!

This question was posted by another member back in May, but didn't receive
an answer due to lack of System information. I would like to create the
same
type of invitation, and am using Windows XP/Outlook 2003

Bill's question was:

presentation but a show. may i please know how i will embed the pps file
and
automatically run the pps by just opening the email and not the
attachment?<<

I know it can be done, since one of the secretaries at the company did
just
that back in December. She is no longer here, so I cannot ask her...

Thanks in Advance!

I hope you are NOT going to send this outside your domain - I, and I'm sure
a lot of other people too, would be pretty cross if I opened an email and a
PowerPoint slide show started up AUTOMATICALLY....

 

[Roady [MVP]]

I think your eyes have deceived you. You cannot create an email with an
attachment that will be directly executed at the receiver's end without the
receiver's interaction. Would be a nice way to spread viruses too, don't you
think? ;-)



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[Roady [MVP]]

You should be jumping for joy then that it was only a PowerPoint
presentation ;-)
Luckily it is not possible anyway.



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[Deb]

the email that we received in December was an invitation to the Christmas
Party, and consisted of a one-page slide with music. Several invitations of
that quality that were issued over the period of June to December. That
invitation was one of the last that I opened, but it wasn't the last
invitation.

The desire to create the same type of invitation was what prompted me to
seek help in this forum.

My employer (the company) employs several full-time security IT persons, and
has fairly "tight" network policies. If they had not liked the form of that
invitation, we would have been notified. We were not notified.

 

[Brian Tillman]

the email that we received in December was an invitation to the
Christmas Party, and consisted of a one-page slide with music.
Several invitations of that quality that were issued over the period
of June to December. That invitation was one of the last that I
opened, but it wasn't the last invitation.

I suspect it wasn't a slide then, but an HTML-formatted message.

 

[Deb]

Brian,

Thanks for your reply, but it was a Power Point file. It was a single-slide
file, i.e. INVITE.PPS

The Outlook help files tell how to create the slide, and attach it to the
message, but they don't mention how to launch it when the email is opened.

I suspect that it was possibly a macro or VBA script, but am not certain.
The normal options for the messages don't allow the automatic launch, for
obvious reasons. The trick here is that she was able to use it several times,
without furor from Corporate IT, and it did launch when you opened the
email...

I saved the file, but not the complete .MSG file...<beating my head on desk>

I have created commercial websites in the past, without "FLASH" and fanfare
(pardon the pun), so I am familiar with the HTML possibilities, but I don't
see HOW she did it with PP. I can't contact her at this time, or I wouldn't
be bothering the forum users...

Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks for your reply, but it was a Power Point file. It was a
single-slide file, i.e. INVITE.PPS

The Outlook help files tell how to create the slide, and attach it to
the message, but they don't mention how to launch it when the email
is opened.

You cannot launch active content automatically in Outlook.