[X4U] Way OT: Ppoint conundrum

Nick Scalise nickscalise at cox.net
Wed Oct 26 06:56:21 PDT 2005


> From: Jesse Leo <jleo at projectsupport.com>
>
> Sorry for the OT, but we're starting to get desperate:
> 
> Any Powerpoint gurus out there know of the best way to burn a 
presentation
> to a CD? We have an "About Us" company presentation that we would like 
to be
> able to hand out to potential clients at meetings. There are some 
embedded
> audio and video files in this presentation. As it stands now when the CD is
> inserted into a WinXP computer, they are asked how they want to view the
> multimedia files (with Windows Media Player, etc). Actually getting to the
> pps presentation requires a bit of searching around on the disk.
> 
> Best case we are hoping that users can insert the disk and pretty much 
watch
> the show without any hassle. Any suggestions?

A couple thoughts:

1) Make the CD 'autorun' on the PC. You just need to create an autorun.inf file  
that references the PowerPoint file that you want to automatically open.

2) Make a DVD of your PowerPoint show instead.


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Nick Scalise
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