[WEB4LIB] RE: Links to PowerPoint Files

[Jim Bailey]

Lida,

Hoping one of these might help. Depending on your operating system, you
could use a login script or if remote registry editting is enabled, it could
be done from one location.

Try this Knowledge Base article:
PRB: In-Place Activating Document Servers in Internet Explorer (Q259970)

Or these:
HOWTO: Launch Word from Internet Explorer (Q178222)

How to Enable the Open or Save As Features When You Open Linked Documents
(Q283093)

Jim Bailey
Erie County Public Library
Technology Assistant
jbailey at erielibrary.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pinkham, Lida" <LPinkham at plcmc.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Links to PowerPoint Files


> 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
> Library Resource Trainer
> 704-353-0631 (phone)
> 704-336-2677 (fax)
>
> Check out the PLCMC family of websites:
> http://www.plcmc.org/sharedPages/PLCMCwebSites.htm
>
> "Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at
> all."
> ~Henry David Thoreau
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