Executive PowerPoint Viewer By Pressing The Advance Keys ('Enter' or 'Space Bar')

[LHooker]

Is there anyway to execute 'PowerPoint' viewer by pressing one of the slide advancement keys (i.e. 'Enter', 'Space' or arrow). I want to run a slide show, then on the last slide (when the advance key is pressed), execute PowerPoint viewer to show another slide show). If so, please provide an example. Thanks ! ! !

[LHooker]

Is there a way to run a second slide show after the last slide in the current slide show ?

[John Wilson]

None of the viewers support vba code. They do support the use of a playlist though. I'm assuming you are running the 2010 viewer.

First make a text file for the playlist using notepad:

Full path to file one e.g. C:\Users\John\Desktop\sample.pptx
Full path to file two
etc

Save this as list.txt in this example on the desktop

Now create a shortcut by right clicking the desktop > NEW > Shortcut

Browse to find PPTVIEW.exe

and then add space /L space (this means use list)

Then the path to the playlist

It might look like (obviously with paths to YOUR files

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\PPTVIEW.EXE" /L "C:\Users\Optiplex\Desktop\list.txt"

Have a play and see if it does what you need

[LHooker]

John,

Thanks ! ! ! I'll give it a try.