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suzanne - 01 Apr 2004 06:21 GMT

Is theer any way to save just a custom show to cd? I
have created the custom show and can view it on my
computer, but I cannot figure out how to just save the
custom show to cd. If this cannot be done, is theer
another way to save just a few slides from the
presentation to a cd?

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Sonia - 01 Apr 2004 06:28 GMT

You should never try to save directly to a CD. Save your presentation to
your hard disk and then use your CD burning software to copy it to a CD.

A "Custom Show" is a subset of your presentation, so copy the presentation
to the CD and you'll have the custom show.

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> Is theer any way to save just a custom show to cd? I
> have created the custom show and can view it on my
> computer, but I cannot figure out how to just save the
> custom show to cd. If this cannot be done, is theer
> another way to save just a few slides from the
> presentation to a cd?

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Bill Foley - 01 Apr 2004 13:26 GMT

If you are afraid that the user won't know how to open the desired Custom
Show, you can automate the process a little using VBA. However, keep in
mind that they will need to make sure they click "Enable macros" when
opening your PPS file on your CD. If you are interested let me know. I
could send some sample code or even send you a quick sample.

Basically it consists of some sort of action button or object that the user
clicks on that runs a macro. Each macro would run the desired Custom Show.
For example, if you have 4 Custom Shows to choose from, you would have four
buttons with each of the following macros assigned to one of the buttons.
keep in mind the text inside the quote is what you called your Custom Show
when you set it up:

Sub CustomShow1()
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoNamedShow "Custom Show 1"
End Sub

Sub CustomShow2()
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoNamedShow "Custom Show 2"
End Sub

Sub CustomShow3()
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoNamedShow "Custom Show 3"
End Sub

Sub CustomShow4()
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoNamedShow "Custom Show 4"
End Sub

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suzanne - 01 Apr 2004 16:15 GMT

Basically, I just want the person that gets the CD to
only be able to see the custom show...not the whole
presentation.

>-----Original Message-----
>If you are afraid that the user won't know how to open the desired Custom
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>Sub CustomShow2()
> SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoNamedShow "Custom Show

>End Sub
>
>Sub CustomShow3()
> SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoNamedShow "Custom Show

>End Sub
>
>Sub CustomShow4()
> SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoNamedShow "Custom Show

>End Sub
>
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>
>.

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Bill Foley - 01 Apr 2004 17:18 GMT

Easiest way to accomplish this is to create a blank presentation using the
same design as your original, click the "Insert" menu and select "Slides
from files", browse to the main presentation and select it, click the
desired slides and click the "Insert" button, then delete your one blank
slide you started with. Since a Custom Show is a part of the ppt file (as
Sonia mentioned), you can't save it as a separate file without using the
method above.

You could hide all the other slides, but the user could still open
PowerPoint, select your PPS file on the CD, then see all the slides in Slide
Sorter view.

SORRY!

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> Basically, I just want the person that gets the CD to
> only be able to see the custom show...not the whole
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> >
> >.

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"John Langhans [MSFT]" - 30 Apr 2004 20:19 GMT

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PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for
(export custom show as new presentation file?).

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