Scheduling multiple PP presentations

[Jim in Cleveland]

We run a Power point presentation to a Plamsa Screen TV that we manually have
to change every morning. Is there a way of scheduling this so that each days
presentation is changed automatically? i.e., we create power point
presentations for Mon, Tues, Wed.....ect. On Monday, we manually start
Monday's presenatation. Then at midnight on Tuesday, Tuesday's presentation
kicks in and takes over, and so on and so on.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Kurt DuPont has dataPoint (if memory serves correctly on his name and
program name) that does almost this exact thing.

It can also be done with a small VB6 program and the windows scheduler or a
VBA routine within a jump off program. Keep in mind that PowerPoint likes
to be stopped every now and then. I do not know if they have fixed all the
small memory leaks that would eventually cause the system to lock, but
suspect they may not have. Therefore the Windows scheduler is a good way to
force a reboot every night. Then, you can place a small jump-off
presentation in the start-up menu (that will begin as part of the Windows
start-up) and link via VBA to the presentation de jour.

Is this the type of set-up you were looking for?

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[Jim in Cleveland]

Bill,

Thanks for the reply. Seeing as I don't have any VB expereince, this
might be a little out of my league. Unless youknow of an easy way to put
something like this together?! Anyway, thanks again.

Jim

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hey Jim,

Drop me an email at the address in my signature. I'll send you the
executable file. The very little VB6 file just runs c:\Sunday.pps,
c:\Monday.pps, c:\Tuesday.pps etc. depending on the day of the week.

1) Set up Windows Scheduler to reboot your system every morning at 12:15 AM

2) Place Chainer.exe in the start-up menu

3) Make a textfile with the active path to PowerPoint, (C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\PowerPnt.exe or such) call it
PowerPointPath.txt and place that in your c: directory.

4) Save your daily looping PowerPoint presentations as the day-of-the-week
they are to run 'Shows' (or rename them as pps files) and place them in c:
directory.

5) Done.

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[Jim in Cleveland]

Bill,

Thanks for reply! My email address is (e-mail address removed)

Jim

 

[pcantele]

Bill;
I have a similar need for a vb program that will replace an existing, broken
program we have here. (No source code can be found.)
What this program seems to do is help folks select which ppt files to play
in sequence so as to appear as one continuous presentation in our lobby. It
lets people from different departments check checkboxes to say which
department(s) want their whatever.ppt file to be part of the total
presentation.
It seems like this program puts out an ascii file based on which checkboxes
are marked, i.e., ADMIN.ppt, EBS.ppt, etc. Then some other program plays the
files listed in this text file. Well, it's broken and there's no source code.
It's pretty simple, but I don't know how to use vb to talk to Powerpoint.
Any clues/help please?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

See response to the newer message.

Bill;
I have a similar need for a vb program that will replace an existing,
broken
program we have here. (No source code can be found.)
What this program seems to do is help folks select which ppt files to play
in sequence so as to appear as one continuous presentation in our lobby.
It
lets people from different departments check checkboxes to say which
department(s) want their whatever.ppt file to be part of the total
presentation.
It seems like this program puts out an ascii file based on which
checkboxes
are marked, i.e., ADMIN.ppt, EBS.ppt, etc. Then some other program plays
the
files listed in this text file. Well, it's broken and there's no source
code.
It's pretty simple, but I don't know how to use vb to talk to Powerpoint.
Any clues/help please?

 

[Kurt]

Hi Bill and others,
The presentationpoint's program to schedule slides on specific dates
and hours is called PlanPoint and it is for free.

DataPoint is to link dynamic database info into the slides. This is not
for free.

Regards,
Kurt.