Re: Selling Services w/ Interactive Presentation

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In article <6771124a-d154-4333-8d88-a741f528eac3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Coffeeprize wrote:
Hi - Can anybody help me with this:

I created a presentation for new customers and I am trying to add
something pretty simple but I don't know how to do it & don't know
much about VBA.

I want to be able to list the services throughout the presentation,
allow the customers to select the services they like, have a summary
page with everything they selected and have that page be able to be
either printed out or have the page sent to my email.

Before you start in on a development project, keep in mind that a VBA-based
solution won't work for at least some users. If their security settings are
set not to allow macros, your code may simply not run at all. Or if security
is set to medium, they'll see a warning that your presentation contains macros
and they'll have the ability allow them to run or not.

Most IT departments will have the security set fairly high, I expect.

Automating email on the client will be another source of complexity. Not
everybody uses Outlook, and not all Outlook users' settings will allow you to
automate Outlook to send email.

Another option to consider: have the users link to a web page with a form that
collects the information you need. One web link in the PPT file and you're
done with the client end. You can change the web form as needed, which you
wouldn't be able to do if you're gathering data on the client end.

The only real disadvantage I can see is that users won't be able to make
selections from within PPT as they go.





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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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