RH9 PowerPoint Slideshows - is this a Microsoft or Adobe question?

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January 17, 2012
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I've already posted this to the Microsoft forum, but it occurred to me that there might be something in Robohelp that I haven't tried.

PowerPoint .ppsx files are supposed to launch as read-only slideshows. However, the link in the published Robohelp project launches PowerPoint (I don't know what happens for people who don't have PowerPoint) and the file is a standard, editable PowerPoint presentation, instead of a slideshow. I don't know how to fix this - I'm almost to the point of saving the presentations as PDF files.

Does anyone know what I should do?

Thanks!

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namedujourAuthor

Inspiring

Just for clarification, I'm linking to baggage files.

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi there

I might think this would fall more into the Microsoft area than RoboHelp. Basically, when you link to a Baggage file, you expect the browser or operating system to determine what happens with the file.

Are you linking from WebHelp, FlashHelp, AIR Help, Microsoft HTML Help, PDF, something else?

You might find that it would be simpler to convert the slide show to a video or Flash format and link to that instead.

Cheers... Rick

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namedujourAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks Rick. I'm generating Webhelp. I tried FlashHelp, and it still launched the file as an editable presentation instead of a slideshow. I guess I'll wait to see if anyone on the Microsoft forum has any thoughts.

Thanks!

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