Running Apps from Inside a powerpoint slide
Alan Wilson
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.
Steve Rindsberg
wrote:
> 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.
He can't display the results within PPT but by using a Run Program action
setting, he can launch the program then switch between it and PPT as needed.
> 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.
A macro could run a series of commands, yes.
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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