Brand new at this (last thing I programmed in was DBase III Plus) and have
been "volunteered" by my boss. I created a .pps slide show with sound in
PowerPoint and exported it using the Package for CD option to a folder. It
works fine on my PC. When I import the directory to FrontPage (as a child
folder) the play.bat will not execute, it just opens in a new tab. Tried
entering the command directly into a button, but then it asks what program I
want to to use to open the slide show. The command is: pptview.exe /L
"playlist.txt" . The file pptview.exe is in the directory. I also tried
converting the .bat to .exe but my corporate web page isn't allowed to open
it. Understanding that this is probably a very basic question, can anyone
help me out?

You cannot run a .exe or a .bat file from a web browser - there are too
many security risks involved.

Try importing the .pps file into the web and linking to the .pps file,
and also link to the powerpoint viewer (zipped as a .zip file)
The browser (if IE) should run powerpoint or the viewer if installed,
other browsers will download the file(s).
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp




"DPad" <DPad [at] discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9B4E5B72-15B3-4116-B62F-CC1FA8B3E86C [at] microsoft.com:

> Brand new at this (last thing I programmed in was DBase III Plus) and have
> been "volunteered" by my boss. I created a .pps slide show with sound in
> PowerPoint and exported it using the Package for CD option to a folder. It
> works fine on my PC. When I import the directory to FrontPage (as a child
> folder) the play.bat will not execute, it just opens in a new tab. Tried
> entering the command directly into a button, but then it asks what program I
> want to to use to open the slide show. The command is: pptview.exe /L
> "playlist.txt" . The file pptview.exe is in the directory. I also tried
> converting the .bat to .exe but my corporate web page isn't allowed to open
> it. Understanding that this is probably a very basic question, can anyone
> help me out?

Thanks! I was looking at some of the Microsoft help scripting answers but I
wasn't sure if I could (or would want to) run scripts on both our students
home systems and the classroom PC's. I definitely appreciate your help. Now
I've got to check with our administrators and see if the students are allowed
to unzip and install the PowerPoint viewer on all of our different classroom
systems. Your answer definitely helped, thanks for taking the time to reply!


"Ronx" wrote:

> You cannot run a .exe or a .bat file from a web browser - there are too
> many security risks involved.
>
> Try importing the .pps file into the web and linking to the .pps file,
> and also link to the powerpoint viewer (zipped as a .zip file)
> The browser (if IE) should run powerpoint or the viewer if installed,
> other browsers will download the file(s).
> --
> Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
>
> http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
>
>
>
>
> "DPad" <DPad [at] discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9B4E5B72-15B3-4116-B62F-CC1FA8B3E86C [at] microsoft.com:
>
> > Brand new at this (last thing I programmed in was DBase III Plus) and have
> > been "volunteered" by my boss. I created a .pps slide show with sound in
> > PowerPoint and exported it using the Package for CD option to a folder. It
> > works fine on my PC. When I import the directory to FrontPage (as a child
> > folder) the play.bat will not execute, it just opens in a new tab. Tried
> > entering the command directly into a button, but then it asks what program I
> > want to to use to open the slide show. The command is: pptview.exe /L
> > "playlist.txt" . The file pptview.exe is in the directory. I also tried
> > converting the .bat to .exe but my corporate web page isn't allowed to open
> > it. Understanding that this is probably a very basic question, can anyone
> > help me out?
>
>