Right clicking on the link and chosing 'Save Target As' does the job, tell the users that if they don't want to view the pps on the cd to do that. I've done it and they 'loved' it.
Paul | -----Original Message----- | From: Brewnetty (AuntySpam) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:59 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: powerpoint from websites | | | Whether internet explorer opens a microsoft file or the | program does is a function of the way your own Microsoft | Internet Explorer is set up. Tweaking that requires messing | with your registry. If your clients have set theirs so that | .pps files open in Powerpoint, then your files will open in | Powerpoint for them. I don't know if there is a workaround | that you could place on your CD or not. | | AuntySpam, SLP Coordinator, pspug.org | | http://www.pspug.org/edu/edu.shtml | http://www.pspug.org/edu/slp/assign.shtml | http://www.pspug.org/edu/slp/slpparticipants.htm | | | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Tim Burgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 AM | Subject: [wdvltalk] powerpoint from websites | | | Hello, | | In my html I'm linking to a PowerPoint show file (.pps). | | When clicked, Internet Explorer opens the file within itself | instead of PowerPoint (like Mozilla, Netscape etc does). | | Is there something I can do to change this so it opens with | PowerPoint. | | My target users will run my site from a CD, in Windows. | | Thanks | Any suggestions would be great thanks | | Tim Burgan | | | ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ | To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Send Your Posts | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To set a personal password send an email to | [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK | pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change | subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: | http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub | | ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ | | You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to | %%email.unsub%% | | ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ | To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Send Your Posts | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To set a personal password send an email to | [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK | pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change | subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: | http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub | | ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ | | You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to | %%email.unsub%% | | ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
