Is it possible to automatically load a PowerPoint file from within another  
  
PowerPoint file?  
  
Here's the scenario: I'm running a number of linked slides from the internet  
  
and want to have an initial "splash" powerpoint file that loads quickly,  
  
while the reader is viewing this intro information I want the main PowerPoint  
  
file to load automatically with no user action required.  
  
Thanks for any suggestions! Please send a copy of your reply post to  
  
cfryar@mail.com  
  
Craig Fryar, PhD PowerPoint  
  
Austin, TX USA

In article <668C6286-0B6A-4C08-B3AB-266DDEF48C15@microsoft.com>, Cfryar wrote:  
  
This may depend on how you're posting your slides to the net.  Are they uploaded  
  
as PPT/PPS files or after converting them to HTML?  
  
If the former, I don't think there's any way to do what you're after, though you  
  
might break the presentation up into several smaller PPT files, one linked to  
  
the next, so that none of them is exceptionally large.  
  
If you don't need animation, I have a commercial add-in that does PPT to HTML  
  
conversions and allows you to set things up such that while the user is viewing  
  
Slide 1, it's downloading and caching the image for Slide 2 behind the scenes;  
  
when they advance to Slide 2, it's almost instantaneous (and immediately starts  
  
downloading the image for Slide 3).  
  
See http://ppt2html.pptools.com for more info and a free fully functional demo.  
  
Here's an example of what I just described (ignore all the links at the bottom  
  
of the page ... they're optional and easily deleted if not wanted):  
  
http://helenrindsberg.myiglou.com/NonWesternArt/WhatIsArtNW/whatisart1.htm  
  
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP  
  
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