Re: Defeating information bars/security warnings in links from Pow

Hi Paul

This is a long rambling story that may be irrelevant, but stick with it ;-)

Ages ago I designed my website using Expression Web and when I viewed it
online I got no warnings, but when I previewed it through Expression Web I
got a blocked content warning. I posted in the newsgroup and got a reply
about it being normal behaviour. I can't now find the thread but look at Mark
Fitzpatrick's reply here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner&mid=84396337-90a5-4679-9e26-cd6797198a48&sloc=en-us

I hope that helps and sorry it's not the answer you were after :-(

Lucy
--
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au




"Paul G" wrote:

Sorry to report that using the Hyperlink approach does not solve the problem.
In fact it is marginally worse. When I use Hyperlink rather than the Action
command I first get a security warning telling me that hyperlinks can be
dangerous and when I click on "yes" to continue, the htm file opens, but
minimized, so if I am actually running the show, there is no indication
whatsoever that the htm file has actually opened. And in addition to that,
the same ActiveX Information bar and security warning is active in the
minimized window anyway. No gain. Some loss. Frustrating. If you can see
a way to solve this when you get in IE7 I will be forever grateful.

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

I don't have a way of checking this with IE7 immediately to hand, but with
IE6/PPT2007/WinXP SP2, it works if I add a hyperlink to an HTML file rather than a
Run Program link/action setting. Give that a shot and if it doesn't fly, I'll fire
up a machine with IE7 on it.

Oh, and if that doesn't work, is a VBA solution acceptable?


In article <D98234C0-8E2D-447A-AA60-16F6AD73DDB0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul G wrote:
Hi. Thanks for your interest. I am invoking it with "Run program" and I
show a path to the file, which is an htm file. FYI: I have gone into
PowerPoint Options, Trust Center, Trust Center Settings where I did the
following: unchecked the "Check Microsoft Office documents, etc." under
Privacy Options; added the path of the htm file to "Trusted Locations"; and
selected "Enable all controls without restrictions and without prompting"
under ActiveX Settings. Hope this helps you help me, Steve. And thanks
again for your interest.

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article <B2C04BFC-5624-4519-8D95-A9C323F89A8F@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul G wrote:
Help!!

I have a mock web site on my hard drive for use in a business presentation.
I have a shortcut on my desktop to this mock web site. I have IE7 configured
so the "site" comes up and the ActiveX controls and scripts run fine without
any information bar or security warnings.

But when I call that same "site" up in IE7 within my PowerPoint presentation
(Office 2007/Vista Ultimate) using an "action" setting, I get an ActiveX
information bar and security warning. I have done everything I can think of
to try to defeat them, including all the recommended "trustworthy" settings,
but still the ActiveX information bar comes up. And when I turned off ALL
the security settings associated with ActiveX, I get an information bar
warning me that I have done THAT.

How can I get this mock site to come up clean within PowerPoint the way it
does from the shortcut on the desktop? I will be eternally grateful for the
magic solution. Thanks...

IE may be smart enough to work out whether it was invoked by the user or by an
application and if the latter, tries to "protect" you.

How exactly are you invoking it? Which action setting are you using?

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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