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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / January 2007A question about LiveWeb
I have incorporated LiveWeb into a slide show At home I have WIN XP and Office 2000. This add-in works like a charm. I want to use the slideshow at our clubhouse. The system there is using Win 98 SE and PowerPoint 97. LiveWeb does its thing OK but the screen view is expanded enough that scroll bars and the tool bars at top are not visible. The little icon at the bottom left does not appear to advance the show. And neither the cursor arrows nor typing N for next will let the presentation advance to the next slide. The only escape I have is to execute alt-tab to break out. This destroys the flow of the presentation. This problem does not manifest itself at home. Is there a straight forward culprit here? Is it the OS or the version of PP? Charlie IIRC, PPT 97 displays at a little different size than 2000 and later. It adds a small black border to the edge of the screen, so it might be a few pixels off. But that shouldn't affect things quite as much as what you're describing. What screen resolution are you running at in the two different places? Also, can you make the control just a little smaller on the slide?  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ >I have incorporated LiveWeb into a slide show > At home I have WIN XP and Office 2000. This add-in works like a charm. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Charlie All of the static slides display the same no matter where I run the slide show. The only time the problem comes up is on two slides where I switch to a website. Then the display of the website and only the website is too big. And things like trying to advance from the web to the next slide, which is static, doesn't work. The cursor and the mouse don't advance to the next slid and the control icon at the lower left of a normal slide does not appear. This happens only on the old machine not the one running XP and PP2000. The only slides that are affected are the two using LiveWeb. Charlie > IIRC, PPT 97 displays at a little different size than 2000 and later. It > adds a small black border to the edge of the screen, so it might be a few [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> >> Charlie Okay, but what about the questions I asked? Here they are again: >> What screen resolution are you running at in the two different places? >> >> Also, can you make the control just a little smaller on the slide? SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > > All of the static slides display the same no matter where I run the slide [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >>> >>> Charlie I don't have the screen resolution at hand for the crt at the clubhouse. Regarding control, I take that to mean the width control on the monitor. Adjusting the width control changes the width of the raster, but has no effect on the video content. Charlie > Okay, but what about the questions I asked? Here they are again: > [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] >>>> >>>> Charlie When you run through the LiveWeb Insert | Web Page wizard, there's an option to size the page to XX % of the slide size and another to set the position at the center of the slide or various other places. You might play with those. By "control," I meant the web browser control -- it's how the web browser is shown on your slide, although I can see that that wasn't clear. So I downloaded LiveWeb, walked through the wizard, and looked more closely at the results. You get a slide with a background-colored autoshape (actually, it's the color of swatch 1 in your color scheme) that covers a web browser object on the slide. Select the autoshape (use tab or the select multiple tool or hover with your mouse) and move it out of the way -- off the edge of the slide or drag the corner to make it smaller or whatever. Now select the web browser control, press Shift, and drag the corner of the object to make it smaller. Pressing Shift constrains the aspect ratio. See if making the web browser control smaller in this manner helps. If not, then I think you should contact the author of the add-in since he's not popped in here yet. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ >I don't have the screen resolution at hand for the crt at the clubhouse. > Regarding control, I take that to mean the width control on the monitor. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Charlie Thanks for the info, Echo S. Always trying to solve puzzles, I tried installing XP to see what would happen. I could not leave it on as it was registered to another machine. But it gave me a chance to see what happened with a different OS. Now the display of the web page was small enough that at least I could use the icon at the bottom left of the slide or use cursor controls to advance the slides. I could not do that previously. Now, while it made the web page fit the slide, it looked as if the view had zoomed in. Navigation around the website was normal. At any rate, what this experiment proved is that there is an OS sensitivity. I am going back to 97SE as we do not have a budget to buy XP and be legitimate. This presentation will be used one time (I hope). I considered dragging one of my PCs to the clubhouse, but decided that I would rather not take it off my wired network. I am in the process of putting 97SE back on and then will try your suggestions. I thank you again. Charlie > When you run through the LiveWeb Insert | Web Page wizard, there's an > option to size the page to XX % of the slide size and another to set the [quoted text clipped - 74 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> Charlie Very interesting, thanks for posting it. I wouldn't have thought about the OS contributing. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Thanks for the info, Echo S. > [quoted text clipped - 101 lines] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Charlie
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