Hi Folks,

I have a friend who's giving a presentation in a couple of weeks. He
asked me a few things which I think are impossible but I thought I'd see
if there is any way to achive what he wants.

He basically wants to run applications from inside a powerpoint slide -
so during his presentation he wants to run an app and have that app open
up from withing powerpoint and display it's live output.

I believe he's also looking for a way to run a series of commands "batch
like" from inside a powerpoint file - this will be done on Office 2004
for the Mac (hence the cross post) so I suggested for the latter he
could make an action button that either launches a vb macro or a mac
.command file containing the commands he wants.

Anyway know if what he wants to do is possible or an elegant way to
achive it?

Many Thanks.

Alan.