PP Custom Animation Timing faster when slideshow run on newer computer

[PJS]

Hi All,

If this is answered somewhere else please point me, as I couldn't find
anything on this.

In Custom Animation/Order & Timing/Start Animation [00:00] after previous
event:

Does anyone know if the time entered in the 00:00 section is based on
computer's actual clock, or if the time is relative to something else, say,
clock speed, i.e., mhz of the computer running the PP slide show?
I created a pps on the hard drive of an older/slower computer, burned it to
cd, then tested it in the CD drive of a newer/much-faster computer. The
animations seemed to start and whiz by much faster on the newer computer,
negating much of the effect.

Created pps on WinME PII @333mhz using PP2000. -- timing seemed appropriate
enough.
Tested it on WinXP Celeron @1.4ghz. -- thought I was a NASCAR.

Is it possible that because my PP is an older version (2000) that the time
was sort of "generally calibrated" to the Windows OS and relative processor
speeds of that time?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment,

Paul

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Is the newer computer running PPT 2002 or later? If so, the changes you are
seeing are more likely to be the changes in how animations work than just in
your processor speed. That said, timing on PPT presentations from one
machine to another is not likely to be consistent. It usually doesn't go to
NASCAR fast, but it can.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[PJS]

The newer computer is only eight months old so it must be running a newer
version of PPT. I didn't check the version -- it's a relative's notebook,
who's never used PP. Hence, when I inserted the burned CD with the pps I
needed to then insert my own Office2000 disc to activate it.

However, it is not the computer the pps will be run on. It will be run on
one belonging to my MST professor, and it's anyone's guess what she will
use. She clearly stated that she digs, and grades on, mucho bells and
whistles, creativity, et al. However, I'm not sure she understands the
extent of my overly fecund belled and whistled mind. Probably I'm making
something of PP that it is not designed to be. In a nutshell, in a single
slide I'll have custom animation events stacked up, and separated by the "in
seconds after previous event [00:00]." Each slide is like a little
interactive thingie unto itself, e.g.: a narrative appears, a character
enters and has a dialogue with a talk balloon with text, there's graphic
objects that need appear and dim, more narrative, more talk balloon, etc.
Then it's on to the next slide with more or less of the same. It's like a
storyboard where timing is crucial -- if the pace and timing is messed with,
such as when I played it on the newer computer, then the whole thing goes by
too fast to be effective, let alone informative, which is the real intent
(it's an elementary grade science unit.) Maybe I have to go much more
conventional with it.

Some sections are still workable. One technique that still works well, which
is the only useful consolation I can offer for reading this far (and if you
ever have a need for it) is a nifty explosion. I made a radial gradient in
P-shop, brought it into PP as a gif, oversized it past the outer boundaries
of the slide, and had the entry animation zoom in (with attached PP
explosion wav.) POOF!, there goes the Earth -- which was already placed in
the slide as a background picture -- done in by it's own magentic field.
Figuring out how to get things of this sort done in PP has been interesting.
I hope I don't have to rethink/redo too much of them.

Paul

 

[Echo S]

I think you just need to create an autorun CD. That will play the file from
the CD using the PPT Viewer (which you have to set up to run from the CD).
Your prof can just put the CD in and the thing will run. Nothing will be
installed on her system.

Doing it that way allows you to use the PPT 97 Viewer, which should display
your animations as you designed them. Don't use animated GIFs or picture
bullets, as the 97 Viewer won't support them. And, of course, after you
download and install the PPT Viewer but before you go to the trouble of
making a CD, open the Viewer, navigate to your presentation, and make sure
it runs the way you want it to.

Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

The newer computer is only eight months old so it must be running a newer
version of PPT. I didn't check the version -- it's a relative's notebook,
who's never used PP. Hence, when I inserted the burned CD with the pps I
needed to then insert my own Office2000 disc to activate it.

However, it is not the computer the pps will be run on. It will be run on
one belonging to my MST professor, and it's anyone's guess what she will
use. She clearly stated that she digs, and grades on, mucho bells and
whistles, creativity, et al. However, I'm not sure she understands the
extent of my overly fecund belled and whistled mind. Probably I'm making
something of PP that it is not designed to be. In a nutshell, in a single
slide I'll have custom animation events stacked up, and separated by the "in
seconds after previous event [00:00]." Each slide is like a little
interactive thingie unto itself, e.g.: a narrative appears, a character
enters and has a dialogue with a talk balloon with text, there's graphic
objects that need appear and dim, more narrative, more talk balloon, etc.
Then it's on to the next slide with more or less of the same. It's like a
storyboard where timing is crucial -- if the pace and timing is messed with,
such as when I played it on the newer computer, then the whole thing goes by
too fast to be effective, let alone informative, which is the real intent
(it's an elementary grade science unit.) Maybe I have to go much more
conventional with it.

Some sections are still workable. One technique that still works well, which
is the only useful consolation I can offer for reading this far (and if you
ever have a need for it) is a nifty explosion. I made a radial gradient in
P-shop, brought it into PP as a gif, oversized it past the outer boundaries
of the slide, and had the entry animation zoom in (with attached PP
explosion wav.) POOF!, there goes the Earth -- which was already placed in
the slide as a background picture -- done in by it's own magentic field.
Figuring out how to get things of this sort done in PP has been interesting.
I hope I don't have to rethink/redo too much of them.

Paul

 

[PJS]

I appreciate the info. Thanks so much. Proceeding along the lines that
autorun will solve this:

I went to the site, found the info, and was all ready to do it when I came
across the caveat of hyperlinks not working in the 97 viewer (at least in
the procedure I read.) I wouldn't have minded sacrificing some grade points
by dumping my few animated gifs but hyperlinks are a must - it's the T in
MST (Math Science Technology) -- the assignment requires that the students
go on an internet scavenger hunt.

I also read that ppview32.exe, part of PP2000, is the same as the 97 viewer.
Is that right? Totally identical? I ask because the autorun faq said
hyperlinks, etc. don't work properly because the autorun procedure does not
"fully install PP Viewer9"7 My point is, if I burned both the ppview32.exe
file that came with PP2000 and my pps presentation directly to cd, would a
"full install" of the viewer then be in place (or am I desperately being
overly semantic?) Because then I'd just have my professor manually click on
the pps file to view it, rather than autorun.

Lastly, I've used the stock PP2000 action buttons on each slide that need to
be manually clicked upon to go to the next slide. When I read about the
hyperlink problem with viewer97 I checked the action settings for how they
work. The menu item says "hyperlink." Is this really another type of
hyperlink that won't work with viewer97, or just Microsoft jargon and
nothing for me to worry about.

My queasy feeling is that I'm going to have to break up alot of my work into
separate slides and tone the whole thing down. I can think of some
workarounds to slow the tempo down (the original problem, after all), such
as using the typewriter effect for text. However, my feeling is that too
many "tricks" will be a distraction.

Thanks again,

Paul

I think you just need to create an autorun CD. That will play the file from
the CD using the PPT Viewer (which you have to set up to run from the CD).
Your prof can just put the CD in and the thing will run. Nothing will be
installed on her system.

Doing it that way allows you to use the PPT 97 Viewer, which should display
your animations as you designed them. Don't use animated GIFs or picture
bullets, as the 97 Viewer won't support them. And, of course, after you
download and install the PPT Viewer but before you go to the trouble of
making a CD, open the Viewer, navigate to your presentation, and make sure
it runs the way you want it to.

Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

The newer computer is only eight months old so it must be running a newer
version of PPT. I didn't check the version -- it's a relative's notebook,
who's never used PP. Hence, when I inserted the burned CD with the pps I
needed to then insert my own Office2000 disc to activate it.

However, it is not the computer the pps will be run on. It will be run on
one belonging to my MST professor, and it's anyone's guess what she will
use. She clearly stated that she digs, and grades on, mucho bells and
whistles, creativity, et al. However, I'm not sure she understands the
extent of my overly fecund belled and whistled mind. Probably I'm making
something of PP that it is not designed to be. In a nutshell, in a single
slide I'll have custom animation events stacked up, and separated by the "in
seconds after previous event [00:00]." Each slide is like a little
interactive thingie unto itself, e.g.: a narrative appears, a character
enters and has a dialogue with a talk balloon with text, there's graphic
objects that need appear and dim, more narrative, more talk balloon, etc.
Then it's on to the next slide with more or less of the same. It's like a
storyboard where timing is crucial -- if the pace and timing is messed with,
such as when I played it on the newer computer, then the whole thing

goes

by
too fast to be effective, let alone informative, which is the real intent
(it's an elementary grade science unit.) Maybe I have to go much more
conventional with it.

Some sections are still workable. One technique that still works well, which
is the only useful consolation I can offer for reading this far (and if you
ever have a need for it) is a nifty explosion. I made a radial gradient in
P-shop, brought it into PP as a gif, oversized it past the outer boundaries
of the slide, and had the entry animation zoom in (with attached PP
explosion wav.) POOF!, there goes the Earth -- which was already placed in
the slide as a background picture -- done in by it's own magentic field.
Figuring out how to get things of this sort done in PP has been interesting.
I hope I don't have to rethink/redo too much of them.

Paul

 

[Echo S]

I think what you read is that tool tips won't work in the PPT Viewer, Paul.
So, if you have explanatory text that pops up when you hover over a link,
*that* won't work. But the links themselves work, as do action buttons.

What I'd recommend is you download the 97 PPT Viewer, install it, open it,
navigate to your presentation, and see how it works. You want this file:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8E-5513-46C4-AA4F-058A84A37DF1&displaylang=EN
This downloads PPView97.exe To answer your specific question, PPView97.exe
will install PPView32.exe and related necessary files. I would download it
instead of installing it from the CD just to make sure you have the most
up-to-date version of this Viewer that's available. (The version that's on
one of the install CDs -- maybe 2000, probably 97, but I can't remember for
sure -- was superseded by a newer 97 Viewer/PPView32.exe.)

If you burn PPView32.exe to your CD, it will not be installed, but it won't
run even when it's double-clicked. The PPT 97 Viewer needs a whole bunch of
DLL files and other things installed to the CD in order to run.

I don't know if PowerLink Plus and Autorun CD Project Creator still have an
option to use the old Viewer (the 97 PPT Viewer) or not.
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm You might drop a line to
Sonia and ask. There's an "email me" button on the individual PLP and ACDPC
pages.

You can find "do it yourself" info on my site at
http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd.htm

Maybe you could provide the actual PPView97.exe file (the PPTView32
installation file) so your prof can install it. She'd have to open the
Viewer after installing it, navigate to your presentation, and then open it,
though, because if she just double-clicks your PPT/PPS file, it will open in
her installed version of PPT.

As you mentioned below, if you have PPT 2002 or 2003 available, it may be
easiest just to test your presentation in it, see what it looks like, and
tweak it as necessary. Your 2000 animations should run the same in both PPT
2002 and 2003. (Oh, and PPT 2002 comes with Office XP, so sometimes people
will refer to it as PPT XP. You can check the version of PPT by opening it
and going to Help/About.)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I appreciate the info. Thanks so much. Proceeding along the lines that
autorun will solve this:

I went to the site, found the info, and was all ready to do it when I came
across the caveat of hyperlinks not working in the 97 viewer (at least in
the procedure I read.) I wouldn't have minded sacrificing some grade points
by dumping my few animated gifs but hyperlinks are a must - it's the T in
MST (Math Science Technology) -- the assignment requires that the students
go on an internet scavenger hunt.

I also read that ppview32.exe, part of PP2000, is the same as the 97 viewer.
Is that right? Totally identical? I ask because the autorun faq said
hyperlinks, etc. don't work properly because the autorun procedure does not
"fully install PP Viewer9"7 My point is, if I burned both the ppview32.exe
file that came with PP2000 and my pps presentation directly to cd, would a
"full install" of the viewer then be in place (or am I desperately being
overly semantic?) Because then I'd just have my professor manually click on
the pps file to view it, rather than autorun.

Lastly, I've used the stock PP2000 action buttons on each slide that need to
be manually clicked upon to go to the next slide. When I read about the
hyperlink problem with viewer97 I checked the action settings for how they
work. The menu item says "hyperlink." Is this really another type of
hyperlink that won't work with viewer97, or just Microsoft jargon and
nothing for me to worry about.

My queasy feeling is that I'm going to have to break up alot of my work into
separate slides and tone the whole thing down. I can think of some
workarounds to slow the tempo down (the original problem, after all), such
as using the typewriter effect for text. However, my feeling is that too
many "tricks" will be a distraction.

Thanks again,

Paul

I think you just need to create an autorun CD. That will play the file from
the CD using the PPT Viewer (which you have to set up to run from the CD).
Your prof can just put the CD in and the thing will run. Nothing will be
installed on her system.

Doing it that way allows you to use the PPT 97 Viewer, which should display
your animations as you designed them. Don't use animated GIFs or picture
bullets, as the 97 Viewer won't support them. And, of course, after you
download and install the PPT Viewer but before you go to the trouble of
making a CD, open the Viewer, navigate to your presentation, and make sure
it runs the way you want it to.

Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

The newer computer is only eight months old so it must be running a newer
version of PPT. I didn't check the version -- it's a relative's notebook,
who's never used PP. Hence, when I inserted the burned CD with the pps I
needed to then insert my own Office2000 disc to activate it.

However, it is not the computer the pps will be run on. It will be run on
one belonging to my MST professor, and it's anyone's guess what she will
use. She clearly stated that she digs, and grades on, mucho bells and
whistles, creativity, et al. However, I'm not sure she understands the
extent of my overly fecund belled and whistled mind. Probably I'm making
something of PP that it is not designed to be. In a nutshell, in a single
slide I'll have custom animation events stacked up, and separated by

the
"in

seconds after previous event [00:00]." Each slide is like a little
interactive thingie unto itself, e.g.: a narrative appears, a character
enters and has a dialogue with a talk balloon with text, there's graphic
objects that need appear and dim, more narrative, more talk balloon, etc.
Then it's on to the next slide with more or less of the same. It's

like

a goes if
you

gradient

in

placed

in

 

[PJS]

Hi - I'm going to go the do it yourself route. Already snagged the viewer
you suggested and followed your provided links to the freeware autorun cd
program. I haven't had time to actually get down and use it yet, except to
install the viewer on my same older computer and run the file. Worked fine
on my old computer, but then again I expected that. But, I will definitely
let you know how it all transpires once I make a go at it. Hopefully, you
will still be reading this far back in the group. However, if you are not
then let me thank you now for all your help, because I would have floundered
in ways that strayed in direct inverse proportion to where I needed to go.
Believe me, this is not trite flattery. Anyway, what if I flop, then I gotta
come back and nag you some more! hah! Either way, I hope to keep coming by
to lurk and learn.

btw, here's the url where I obtained the info about hyperlinks not working
properly in viewer 97. I don't think that's tooltips, is it? I'll find out
for sure soon, anyway!
Also, I thought PP2000, which I made the presentation with, embeds the files
I've used. But the autorun cd instructs say to bring all the files onto the
cd rom. I'll do that, but am still curious.

Paul

I think what you read is that tool tips won't work in the PPT Viewer, Paul.
So, if you have explanatory text that pops up when you hover over a link,
*that* won't work. But the links themselves work, as do action buttons.

What I'd recommend is you download the 97 PPT Viewer, install it, open it,
navigate to your presentation, and see how it works. You want this file:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8E-5513-46C4-AA4F-058A84A37DF1&displaylang=EN
This downloads PPView97.exe To answer your specific question, PPView97.exe
will install PPView32.exe and related necessary files. I would download it
instead of installing it from the CD just to make sure you have the most
up-to-date version of this Viewer that's available. (The version that's on
one of the install CDs -- maybe 2000, probably 97, but I can't remember for
sure -- was superseded by a newer 97 Viewer/PPView32.exe.)

If you burn PPView32.exe to your CD, it will not be installed, but it won't
run even when it's double-clicked. The PPT 97 Viewer needs a whole bunch of
DLL files and other things installed to the CD in order to run.

I don't know if PowerLink Plus and Autorun CD Project Creator still have an
option to use the old Viewer (the 97 PPT Viewer) or not.
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/tutorials.htm You might drop a line to
Sonia and ask. There's an "email me" button on the individual PLP and ACDPC
pages.

You can find "do it yourself" info on my site at
http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd.htm

Maybe you could provide the actual PPView97.exe file (the PPTView32
installation file) so your prof can install it. She'd have to open the
Viewer after installing it, navigate to your presentation, and then open it,
though, because if she just double-clicks your PPT/PPS file, it will open in
her installed version of PPT.

As you mentioned below, if you have PPT 2002 or 2003 available, it may be
easiest just to test your presentation in it, see what it looks like, and
tweak it as necessary. Your 2000 animations should run the same in both PPT
2002 and 2003. (Oh, and PPT 2002 comes with Office XP, so sometimes people
will refer to it as PPT XP. You can check the version of PPT by opening it
and going to Help/About.)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I appreciate the info. Thanks so much. Proceeding along the lines that
autorun will solve this:

I went to the site, found the info, and was all ready to do it when I came
across the caveat of hyperlinks not working in the 97 viewer (at least in
the procedure I read.) I wouldn't have minded sacrificing some grade points
by dumping my few animated gifs but hyperlinks are a must - it's the T in
MST (Math Science Technology) -- the assignment requires that the students
go on an internet scavenger hunt.

I also read that ppview32.exe, part of PP2000, is the same as the 97 viewer.
Is that right? Totally identical? I ask because the autorun faq said
hyperlinks, etc. don't work properly because the autorun procedure does not
"fully install PP Viewer9"7 My point is, if I burned both the ppview32.exe
file that came with PP2000 and my pps presentation directly to cd, would a
"full install" of the viewer then be in place (or am I desperately being
overly semantic?) Because then I'd just have my professor manually click on
the pps file to view it, rather than autorun.

Lastly, I've used the stock PP2000 action buttons on each slide that

need

to
be manually clicked upon to go to the next slide. When I read about the
hyperlink problem with viewer97 I checked the action settings for how they
work. The menu item says "hyperlink." Is this really another type of
hyperlink that won't work with viewer97, or just Microsoft jargon and
nothing for me to worry about.

My queasy feeling is that I'm going to have to break up alot of my work into
separate slides and tone the whole thing down. I can think of some
workarounds to slow the tempo down (the original problem, after all), such
as using the typewriter effect for text. However, my feeling is that too
many "tricks" will be a distraction.

Thanks again,

Paul

I think you just need to create an autorun CD. That will play the file from
the CD using the PPT Viewer (which you have to set up to run from the CD).
Your prof can just put the CD in and the thing will run. Nothing will be
installed on her system.

Doing it that way allows you to use the PPT 97 Viewer, which should display
your animations as you designed them. Don't use animated GIFs or picture
bullets, as the 97 Viewer won't support them. And, of course, after you
download and install the PPT Viewer but before you go to the trouble of
making a CD, open the Viewer, navigate to your presentation, and make sure
it runs the way you want it to.

Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


The newer computer is only eight months old so it must be running a newer
version of PPT. I didn't check the version -- it's a relative's notebook,
who's never used PP. Hence, when I inserted the burned CD with the

pps

I

needed to then insert my own Office2000 disc to activate it.

However, it is not the computer the pps will be run on. It will be

run
on

one belonging to my MST professor, and it's anyone's guess what she will
use. She clearly stated that she digs, and grades on, mucho bells and
whistles, creativity, et al. However, I'm not sure she understands the
extent of my overly fecund belled and whistled mind. Probably I'm making
something of PP that it is not designed to be. In a nutshell, in a single
slide I'll have custom animation events stacked up, and separated by the
"in
seconds after previous event [00:00]." Each slide is like a little
interactive thingie unto itself, e.g.: a narrative appears, a character
enters and has a dialogue with a talk balloon with text, there's graphic
objects that need appear and dim, more narrative, more talk balloon, etc.
Then it's on to the next slide with more or less of the same. It's

like

a
storyboard where timing is crucial -- if the pace and timing is messed
with,
such as when I played it on the newer computer, then the whole thing goes
by
too fast to be effective, let alone informative, which is the real intent
(it's an elementary grade science unit.) Maybe I have to go much more
conventional with it.

Some sections are still workable. One technique that still works well,
which
is the only useful consolation I can offer for reading this far

(and

if gradient placed

 

[Echo S]

Hi - I'm going to go the do it yourself route. Already snagged the viewer
you suggested and followed your provided links to the freeware autorun cd
program. I haven't had time to actually get down and use it yet, except to
install the viewer on my same older computer and run the file. Worked fine
on my old computer, but then again I expected that. But, I will definitely
let you know how it all transpires once I make a go at it. Hopefully, you
will still be reading this far back in the group. However, if you are not
then let me thank you now for all your help, because I would have floundered
in ways that strayed in direct inverse proportion to where I needed to go.
Believe me, this is not trite flattery. Anyway, what if I flop, then I gotta
come back and nag you some more! hah! Either way, I hope to keep coming by
to lurk and learn.

I'm a sucker for flattery. <G>

I should see any additional posts to this thread, but if nobody answers
within a day or so, you can always post a new thread. No response after that
period of time is usually an indication that we either haven't seen the post
for some reason, or nobody who's read it knows the answer.

btw, here's the url where I obtained the info about hyperlinks not working
properly in viewer 97. I don't think that's tooltips, is it? I'll find out
for sure soon, anyway!

Hm. URL's missing. Was it Sonia's information here?
http://www.soniacoleman.com/FAQs/FAQ00021.htm

If so, then yes, you have to watch out for "hyperlinks on grouped objects."
That means, if you've added a hyperlink to an object on the slide, then
you've grouped that object with other objects on the slide (by selecting the
objects and choosing Draw/Group), those hyperlinks will not work in the
Viewer.

If you have not grouped the objects with hyperlinks, you've nothing to worry
about.

Also, I thought PP2000, which I made the presentation with, embeds the files
I've used. But the autorun cd instructs say to bring all the files onto the
cd rom. I'll do that, but am still curious.

Whether a file is embedded or not depends on the files you brought in and
sometimes how you brought them in. If you're just talking about images,
chances are they are embedded. If you're talking about sounds, it could go
either way. If video, it's linked.

To be positive, when you create the autorun, you can use File/Pack and Go,
then double-click the PNGSetup.EXE file it creates to unpack to a folder on
your harddrive. That should include your PPT file and any linked files along
with some of the PPT Viewer files if you opted to include the Viewer during
the Pack and Go process. Add all the DLL and other files listed for the PPT
97 Viewer, create the folder structure, autorun.INF and present.LST file as
described at http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd.htm#Doityourself

 

[PJS]

Oops. Here's is the url:
http://www.echosvoice.com/173937.txt
Near the top of the document under NOTES, regarding not being able to
hyperlink to external Internet web sites (while running using PowerPoint 97
from a compact disc. Maybe that doesn't happen anymore using the newer
viewer you pointed me to.
Paul

 

[Echo S]

Oh, heck, that's from my own site! See why I don't offer any real support
for the info there?

I think that article is wrong there. At least, I don't recall these being a
problem. (Or it could be that MS didn't want to claim those functions work
because they don't always? I mean, notice that that article says it's "as
is" yada, yada. The whole "run the 97 Viewer from a CD" isn't something MS
ever really supported.)

Hopefully someone else will pop in if they're sure one way or the other.
I'll try to test sometime this weekend. Or you could -- probably should
anyway, actually -- burn a quick test CD to see how it acts for you.

It also may not be an issue for you -- do you need to link to other PPT
files or to websites?

 

[PJS]

I know it's from your site - I was trying to be gentle.
I'll test it out this weekend. And yes, I have a mandatory internet
scavenger hunt with hyperlinks to include. The date on that document is
pretty old though, so maybe those things have been positively dealt with
since.
Paul

Oh, heck, that's from my own site! See why I don't offer any real support
for the info there?

I think that article is wrong there. At least, I don't recall these being a
problem. (Or it could be that MS didn't want to claim those functions work
because they don't always? I mean, notice that that article says it's "as
is" yada, yada. The whole "run the 97 Viewer from a CD" isn't something MS
ever really supported.)

Hopefully someone else will pop in if they're sure one way or the other.
I'll try to test sometime this weekend. Or you could -- probably should
anyway, actually -- burn a quick test CD to see how it acts for you.

It also may not be an issue for you -- do you need to link to other PPT
files or to websites?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Oops. Here's is the url:
http://www.echosvoice.com/173937.txt
Near the top of the document under NOTES, regarding not being able to
hyperlink to external Internet web sites (while running using PowerPoint 97
from a compact disc. Maybe that doesn't happen anymore using the newer
viewer you pointed me to.
Paul
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