[WEB4LIB] Links to PowerPoint Files

[Pinkham, Lida]

I found the answer to my own question and it is NOT the answer I wanted to
hear. Basically Microsoft knows it is a problem and doesn't have a fix for
it. They have a workaround, but not one that is doable for me. They want you
to change the "Browse in Same Window" option. Sure - who is going to go
around to 500 PCs and do that? See the article below...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q148897

-----Original Message-----
From: Pinkham, Lida [mailto:LPinkham at plcmc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:20 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Links to PowerPoint Files


For the first time on our staff intranet we have a couple of PowerPoint
presentations that we want to post.

1.) I don't want to convert them to HTML. I just want to link to them and
have PowerPoint open. We have no trouble with linking to Word & Excel
documents
2.) The File Type Setting for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all have the
"Browse in Same Window" option unchecked. We want the actual application to
open.
3.) If I check the "Browse in Same Window option", the presentation will
open in the browser. But I can't have IT reset over 500 computers just for
this.

We are using PowerPoint 97 and Internet Explorer 5.5. Has anyone heard of
anything like this? Could it be just a Microsoft bug. I can't find any
information because everytime I search on the topic, I just get pages on how
to convert my presentation to a web page which is not what I want to do.

Lida Pinkham
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
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