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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / February 2006Launching PowerPoint Show w/ Task Scheduler
I am attempting to run a task that would open a .pps file to launch a powerpoint show, but what I find happens is that Powerpoint itself is launched with the "show" I want to run in the window, but not running. Does someone know some way to launch a Powerpoint show completely automatically? I am running PP 2003 on an XP sp2 machine. Thanks for your help! >I am attempting to run a task that would open a .pps file to launch a > powerpoint show, but what I find happens is that Powerpoint itself is > launched with the "show" I want to run in the window, but not running. That's where you lost me, either it's running the presentation or it's not. Have no idea what you mean by "in the window but not running". Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com This is probably because the default program to open .pps file on your machine is PowerPoint, now PowerPoint show player. You can change it back via Tools->Folder Options -> File Types->.PPS-> Advanced Button, then set "Show" as the default action. If this cannot solve your problem, please let me know. KIBase PowerPointer - The coolest tool for PowerPoint from http://www.kibase.com *FYI - How to edit a .pps file* Have you ever happened to deal with a .pps file? A .pps file is just a PowerPoint Show file, that is, a normal presentation file which will open up in full screen mode as soon as you double-click it. In this way, you don't have the possibility to modify it or to discover the tricks which lie behind. Apparently. Yes, because if you want to modify and edit a .pps file, you can do the following: a) Right-click in the file icon holding down the shift key (if you have Windows Millennium you will not need to hold it down). b) Choose "Open with..." from the context menu c) Select "PowerPoint" from the "Open With" dialog box Otherwise, you can also a) right-click on the file icon b) choose "Rename" c) replace ".pps" with ".ppt". > I am attempting to run a task that would open a .pps file to launch a > powerpoint show, but what I find happens is that Powerpoint itself is > launched with the "show" I want to run in the window, but not running. Does > someone know some way to launch a Powerpoint show completely automatically? I > am running PP 2003 on an XP sp2 machine. Open the show in PPT and check Slide Show, Settings. It sounds as though you don't have it set to run in full screen or kiosk mode. Change to one of those, save again and see if it works better for you. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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