Microsoft KB Archive/69444

Starting a PowerPoint Slide Show from Program Manager PSS ID Number: Q69444 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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WINDOWS

Summary:

To start a PowerPoint for Windows slide show from Program Manager:


 * 1) Create a Windows Recorder macro that opens PowerPoint and then starts the slide show for you.
 * 2) After assigning the macro a shortcut key, create a Program Manager icon that allows you to call the macro directly.

The command line for the Program Manager icon would follow this syntax

RECORDER.EXE -h

where “-h” tells Recorder to use the following shortcut key when opening the macro file; is the key that was defined as the shortcut key for the macro; and is the name of the Recorder macro file.

For example, if you want to start the macro in TEST.REC, which has the shortcut key ALT+F10 defined to open up a specific PowerPoint presentation and start the slide show, put the following entry in the command line field:

RECORDER -h %F10 TEST.REC The “%” character indicates the ALT key, just as in the Excel SEND.KEYS macro function.

For more information, query on the words:

recorder and command-line and parameters

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.