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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / June 2005PowerPoint and Web Content?
Hello, We are looking to have a simple powerpoint presentation that would be on a never ending loop that can can display in the lobby of our building. Some of the pages are static text pages but some of them would need to display web things from the internet. One would be a weather template that would update each time the page was displayed One would be a stock report that would update each time the page was displayed One would be a page that would have to pull in and display a list of names from a Text file and that file would be updated throughout the day Can Powerpoint do this? I have Powerpoint 2003 but the machine that runs this might only have 2000. But we could upgrade it to 2003 if we have to. If someone could let me know if this can be done and HOW it cane be done, that's be great. Right now we have a web page setup with the weather and stock things and it uses javascript and such which is what I'm not sure PP can do or not... Thanks! > We are looking to have a simple powerpoint presentation that would be on a > never ending loop that can can display in the lobby of our building. Some of [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Right now we have a web page setup with the weather and stock things and it > uses javascript and such which is what I'm not sure PP can do or not... Visit http://www.mvps.org/skp/ and get the LiveWeb addin. This will allow you to include live web content on your PPT slides. It'll only work in PPT, not the free viewer, but that doesn't seem to be an issue in your situation. Try it, and if it works, stress-test the presentation. Let it run for a few days nonstop. With luck, all will be well and problem's solved. PowerPoint seems to have trouble running nonstop for long periods of time on some computers (or with some presentations or when the moon's in the second house and Jupiter aligns with Mars or if the sacrificial chicken isn't just the right shade of black ... nobody seems to know, really). It may run fine for a few hours or days then lock up. Something to watch out for. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > > We are looking to have a simple powerpoint presentation that would be on a > > never ending loop that can can display in the lobby of our building. Some of [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ Do I need to install the Add-In on any computer that might view the PPT or just the one that I'm making it on? Seems to work pretty well from the 10 seconds I've played with it. :) > Do I need to install the Add-In on any computer that might view the PPT or > just the one that I'm making it on? Seems to work pretty well from the 10 > seconds I've played with it. :) It'd need to be installed on any computer that plays back the presentation. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > > Do I need to install the Add-In on any computer that might view the PPT or > > just the one that I'm making it on? Seems to work pretty well from the 10 [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ So far so good. One last question. On step 2 there is a box that says: Yes, refresh web page automatically (real-time update). If I do NOT choose this option, does it just basically grab a screenshot of the page and Never update? Or does it just update every once in a while or what? I've noticed that when I check the box, it seems to have a delay of loading the page sometimes since it's the Internet and it gets slow every so often. But I don't want to Not choose the option if that means it will never update since one of the pages is supposed to be the current Weather conditions. :) But all in all it's Great. Thanks! > On step 2 there is a box that says: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the page and Never update? Or does it just update every once in a while or > what? I don't really know. I didn't write it, I just pointed you in its direction and pushed <g>. That should be easy enough to try out with a simple local HTML file that you can edit in Notepad. > I've noticed that when I check the box, it seems to have a delay of loading > the page sometimes since it's the Internet and it gets slow every so often. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks! ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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