Links to PowerPoint Files

[Pinkham, Lida]

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
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