Re: Avoiding password requests when hyperlinking to a protected pp

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Hello,

Hope the beers were good John!

Have tried the embed trick. Works well in PPT 2003, with the slight drawback
that specific slides can't be linked to within the embedded presentation
(don't suppose there's a way around that?).

The real drawback, though, is that it doesn't work in Viewer - it says
PowerPoint 2003 Viewer doesn't support opening embedded objects.

Any thoughts? If you do come across any ideas re. avoiding the password
request Trish and just opening in read only, that'd be awesome - please note
that, due to the need for it to work with PowerPont Viewer, we can't use
macros which is obviously quite a big constraint.

Thanks again for your help,
Dave

"trish" wrote:

Hi Dave

John's gone to buy beer! (I'm his other half)

We are quite interested in this (the genius idea wasn't ours though) There
has to be a way to disable the password prompt and just open in read only
mode. I'm working on it and if i find a way I'll let you know via this group.

"Dave Ag" wrote:

Hi John and Echo,

Many thanks for this - and for such a speedy response.

Yes, had tried renaming the main one as .pps - had hoped that would work,
but as you say John, unfortunately not!!

PNGs wouldn't work for this particular one as lots of animation, and links,
etc., but embedding a .pps in another file is a genius idea. I reckon that
will provide more than enough protection - if anyone really wanted to hack
the presentation they'd manage even with the modify password I'm sure.

Will give it a go and will let you know how I get on.

Thanks a lot for your time - much appreciated!

Dave

"John Wilson" wrote:

You do Echo!

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John Wilson
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"Echo S" wrote:

I haven't tried it, but in addition to John's suggestions, if you change the
file (the main.ppt) to main.PPS (with a modify password), do you still get
prompted for the password?

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"Dave Ag" <Dave Ag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I was hoping I could request some advice.

I'm putting together a presentation set which has includes two
presentations:

1. a editable presentation that includes some link buttons in the master
slide template - this presentation can be edited and renamed by the guys
who
present it, but let's call it "custom.ppt" for the moment.
2. a read-only presentation (locked by means of a modification password)
that can't be edited by the guys who are presenting - this file is always
called "main.ppt".

The idea is that each time the team do a presentation, they can create a
specific presentation using the custom.ppt template, but while in
slideshow
mode, they can link into content from main.ppt by using the link buttons
on
the slide master of custom.ppt.

This has to work in both PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2003 Viewer.

Am pretty much there, but one thing's stumping me - when linking into
main.ppt from custom.ppt using PowerPoint 2003, it always prompts for the
modification password for main.ppt. (This isn't a problem in PowerPoint
2003
Viewer.)

Is there a way around this? I guess the possible use of macros is limited
due to the need for the same file to be compatibile with PowerPoint 2003
Viewer.

All advice would be much appreciated! I'm afraid taking the modification
password off wouldn't be appropriate, unless there's another way to
protecting the content of main.ppt?

Please note that the password on main.ppt is a password to modify, not a
password to open.

Many thanks.

Best regards,
Dave



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