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Hi, all, I'm hoping you can help me here.
I've got a series of buttons on my Autoplay Media Studio page which open the same PPS file. (In case you don't know, a PPS is just like a PPT PowerPoint file, except it opens automatically in full-screen show view as opposed to opening to the PPT editing window.)
I'd like each of these buttons to open the file to a different slide. For instance, Button 1 should open to slide 1. Button 2 should open to slide 6, which begins the second "section" of the PPS file.
In PowerPoint itself, you can hyperlink to slides within a presentation by using <filename>#<slide number>. So I could link to, for instance, myfile.pps#6 to open on slide 6. This is also how you'd do it if you were linking to a PPT/PPS file from within another MS Office application such as Word.
I tried that syntax in AMS, but it doesn't seem to work:
File.Open("AutoPlay\\Docs\\echo.pps#6", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL);
Of course,
File.Open("AutoPlay\\Docs\\echo.pps", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL);
works just fine.
Another way to call a specific slide is to use <filename>#<Slide ID>,<Slide Index>. You can find the Slide ID and Slide Index by opening PPT in IE and looking at the address window. So I tried that syntax as well:
File.Open("AutoPlay\\Docs\\echo.pps#546,6", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL);
It doesn't work, either.
Do any of you know how to open a PPT/PPS file to a specific slide? Is there a second action line or line of code I can add? (Played with Page Jump, but that didn't work, either.)
I would really really really rather not have to break this slide file up into a bunch of individual PPT/PPS files just because I can't figure out how to make AMS open them from anything but the first slide!
Any suggestions appreciated.
Echo
I've got a series of buttons on my Autoplay Media Studio page which open the same PPS file. (In case you don't know, a PPS is just like a PPT PowerPoint file, except it opens automatically in full-screen show view as opposed to opening to the PPT editing window.)
I'd like each of these buttons to open the file to a different slide. For instance, Button 1 should open to slide 1. Button 2 should open to slide 6, which begins the second "section" of the PPS file.
In PowerPoint itself, you can hyperlink to slides within a presentation by using <filename>#<slide number>. So I could link to, for instance, myfile.pps#6 to open on slide 6. This is also how you'd do it if you were linking to a PPT/PPS file from within another MS Office application such as Word.
I tried that syntax in AMS, but it doesn't seem to work:
File.Open("AutoPlay\\Docs\\echo.pps#6", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL);
Of course,
File.Open("AutoPlay\\Docs\\echo.pps", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL);
works just fine.
Another way to call a specific slide is to use <filename>#<Slide ID>,<Slide Index>. You can find the Slide ID and Slide Index by opening PPT in IE and looking at the address window. So I tried that syntax as well:
File.Open("AutoPlay\\Docs\\echo.pps#546,6", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL);
It doesn't work, either.
Do any of you know how to open a PPT/PPS file to a specific slide? Is there a second action line or line of code I can add? (Played with Page Jump, but that didn't work, either.)
I would really really really rather not have to break this slide file up into a bunch of individual PPT/PPS files just because I can't figure out how to make AMS open them from anything but the first slide!
Any suggestions appreciated.
Echo
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