PowerPoint Presentations

And finally, Q173937, which has been pulled from the MSKB because it
turned out to generate many many support calls to MS due to the often
complex nature of presentations users are attempting to burn to CD.
Scott, here's the code you wanted.

Title: PPT97: How to Run PowerPoint Viewer 97 from a Compact Disc

Last reviewed: November 25, 1998 Article ID: Q173937
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
SUMMARY

WARNING: The information in this article has not been confirmed or
tested by Microsoft. Some or all of the information
in this article has been taken from unconfirmed customer reports.
ANY USE BY YOU OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN
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purpose.

This article describes how to setup a compact disc so that your
presentation will run automatically when you place it in
the CD-ROM drive. The presentation plays without copying any files
to the hard disk and without running Microsoft
PowerPoint Viewer 97 setup.

NOTES:
This procedure only works if you have a CD-ROM burner or
access to a CD-ROM burner.
This method does not fully install the PowerPoint Viewer 97.
Therefore, the following features are not available:

- Hyperlinking to other PowerPoint presentations.
- Hyperlinking to Internet Web Sites.

You need to have the PowerPoint Viewer 97, which is available
for download.

When burning the CD-ROM for use on Microsoft Windows NT 3.51,
use the following guidelines:
- All directories and file names must be less than 32
characters.
- All directories and file names must use capital
letters.
- The directory tree cannot exceed 8 levels from the
root.

For additional information, please see the following articles
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q142372

TITLE : Windows NT Support for Long File Names Under CDFS
File System ARTICLE-ID: Q93604 TITLE : ISO 9660 Support for CD-ROM

MORE INFORMATION

Step 1: Create the folder structure on your hard disk

Create the following folder structure on your hard disk:

Root
\Present
\Setup

The Present and Setup folders must be created at the root level of
the CD-ROM. The Viewer 97 looks for a Setup
folder one level below the ppview32.exe.

Step 2: Create the Autorun.inf and *.lst file
1.On the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, Point to
Accessories, and click NotePad.

2.Enter the following information exactly as written below:

[autorun]
open=ppview32.exe present\present.lst

NOTE: All autorun commands need to be flush left in the *.inf
file. Also the present.lst can be replaced with the
name of a presentation file, such as "myprew.ppt" or
"main.pps" as long as you do not use spaces in the
filename.

3.On the File menu, click Save.

4.In the Save In box, select the root folder you created in Step
1. In the File Name box, enter "autorun.inf"
(without the quotation marks). Click Save.

5.On the File menu, click New.

6.Enter the name of your presentation.

NOTE: Enter the name of the presentation only. Do not include
the path of the file.

7.On the File menu, click Save.

8.In the Save In box, select the \present folder you created in
Step 1. In the File Name box, enter "present.lst"
(without the quotation marks). Click Save.

Step 2: Copying Files to the compact disc

Using a CD-ROM burner, copy the following files from your hard
disk to the appropriate folders on the compact disc.
Make sure you place the presentation files in the \present folder,
along with any linked movie (.avi) or sound (.wav)
files.

Copy these files to the root folder on the compact disc:

Autorun.inf
Base.srg
Pp4x322.dll
Pp7x32.dll
Ppintlv.dll Ppview32.exe
Rappt.dll
Selfreg.dll
Servrdep.srg
Servrind.srg
Sshow.srg
Docobj.dll
Hlink.dll
Hlinkprx.dll
Msimrt.dll
Msimrt16.dll
Msimrt32.dll
Msimusic.dll
Mso97v.dll
Msorfs.dll
Msppt8vr.olb
Msv7enu.dll
T2embed.dll
Urlmon.dll
Wininet.dll

Copy the following file to the \setup folder:

Ppview.dll

Copy the following files to the \present folder:

.ppt
any linked files
*.avi files
*.wav files
narrations
Present.lst

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following articles in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q170801
TITLE : PPT97: How to Obtain PowerPoint Viewer 97

ARTICLE-ID: Q93702
TITLE : PPT: How to Write and Use a List File in PowerPoint
Viewer

ARTICLE-ID: Q136214
TITLE : How to Test Autorun.inf Files

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Last reviewed: November 25, 1998
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