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PowerPoint 2002 to EXE
See also: PowerPoint 2003
to EXE
Introduction
Part I by Echo Swinford
Part II by Geetesh Bajaj
Introduction
The PowerPoint 2003 Viewer and an undocumented Windows
utility allow you to create a standalone EXE file from PowerPoint
2002 presentations that can play on any system with Windows 98
SE or higher installed.
This is a two step process.
- Copy the presentation, linked files and the PowerPoint 2003
Viewer runtime files to a folder.
- Use IExpress to create a standalone EXE
PowerPoint 2003 users can perform the first part automatically
- however, PowerPoint 2002 users need to do it manually or through
a third party utility like Sonia Coleman's PowerLink Plus.
PowerPoint MVP Echo Swinford has permitted me to mirror
valuable content from her site that shows you how to do it manually
in PowerPoint 2002 - I wish to thank her. If you use PowerPoint
often, you must visit her site - it's a repertoire of difficult-to-find-elsewhere
PowerPoint content.
I need to add that this technique uses the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer
and thus inherits all its abilities and limitations - for instance,
it doesn't support OLE or the use of Action Settings | Run Program
procedures.
Having said that, this technique outputs much more than a standalone
EXE. Other benefits it offers include email, protection, ease of
use for the end user, nothing permanently installed, etc.
Read Part I Here
Read Part II Here
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