Re: Pack and Go Wizard for PP2002

From: Geetesh Bajaj (geeteshREMOVECAPS_at_poboxes.com)
Date: 07/11/04


Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:01:10 +0530

About the 2nd question, try the new PowerPoint 2003 Viewer that supports all
the new animations:

PowerPoint Viewer 2003 - http://snipurl.com/ppview2003

About links not working, look here:

Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working -
http://snipurl.com/linkproblems

-- 
Geetesh Bajaj, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
http://www.indezine.com
http://www.powerpointed.com
Technical Specialist, PowerPoint Live
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"Bowdrie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2a5e901c46702$58d0c910$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>      Have Powerpoint 2002 running on Windows XP and I am
> having problems with the Pack and Go Feature and the
> Viewer.
>      1.  First, when I select the Pack and Go Wizard and
> get to the "Choose a Destination" option I have available
> the choice of a "G" and an "H" drive and a "Choose
> Destination".  I have no Floppy Drive and my two CD
> Burners are Drive "E" and Drive "F". One is a DVD but
> will also burn CD-R's. When I go to "Choose Destination"
> and select either "E" or "F" drive I get an error message
> stating "The Parameter is Incorrect" and it will not let
> me access either Drive.  Pack and Go I think was
> originally intended to copy to a Floppy.  Is it possible
> that it will not write to a CD-R? Any assistance here
> would be appreciated.
>      2.  Second I downloaded the Viewer which is a 1997
> version that is suppose to work with 1997, 2000, and 2002
> PowerPoint versions, running on Windows 95, 98, 2000, and
> ME but I noted it did not list Windows XP.  In any case I
> attempted to run a presentation on the desk top computer
> and monitor just to see how it worked.  It ran but none
> of the slide entrance animations and some of the
> paragraph and word animations do not work. Some of the
> sound clips do not play, and some of the words and titles
> on the slides are out of line.  Does Windows XP not
> support this viewer?  Any assistance here would also be
> appreciated.
>      3.  I can write the presentation file to a CD-R
> using my writing software but some of the links on sound
> and videos used on the slides do not play on my Laptop
> because the slide only carries a link to that media which
> is on the desktop.  I could copy all the media to the CD-
> R and on to the laptop but then I have to delete the
> links and reinsert them from the laptop into each slide
> again - a bit of a pain.  Is there any way to copy the
> presentation to the CD-R and have it include the media
> within each slide as is "suppose" to be accomplished with
> the Pack and Go Wizard that does not seem to work?
> Thanks, Bowdrie.
>


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