PPT97: How to Create a Play List That Loops Continuously

ID: Q171681

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SUMMARY

When you run a play list (.lst) file in Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 97 and you select the option of Loop Continuously until ESC, when the presentations are placed on separate lines, each presentation loops (reruns) until you press ESC. For example, if your play list file contains the following list:

When you run the play list, PowerPoint Viewer runs Pres1.ppt until the ESC key is pressed and then it runs the next presentation until the ESC key is pressed.

This article describes how to loop through a series of presentations, rather than one at a time. Using this method you will press ESC after the series runs instead of after each presentation.


MORE INFORMATION

To run a series of presentations, separate the file names with a space (press the SPACEBAR). For example: 


Pres1.ppt Pres2.ppt Pres3.ppt Pres5.ppt Pres4.ppt
NOTE: If you are using long file names, which contain spaces, enclose the file names in quotation marks. For example: 

"Presentation 1.ppt" "Presentation 2.ppt" "Presentation 3.ppt"
The play list file can contain multiple series of presentations. For example:
  • Pres1.ppt Pres2.ppt Pres3.ppt


  • Apres1.ppt Apres2.ppt


  • Bpres.ppt Cpres.ppt Dpres.ppt


    • When you run the play list file, PowerPoint Viewer will loop through Pres1.ppt, Pres2.ppt, and Pres3.ppt. When you press ESC, PowerPoint Viewer will loop through Apres1.ppt and Apres2.ppt. When you press ESC again, PowerPoint Viewer will loop through Bpres.PPT, Cpres.ppt and Dpres.ppt, until it is finished.

    For more information about obtaining PowerPoint Viewer 97, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
    Q170801: PPT97: How to Obtain PowerPoint Viewer 97
    For more information about creating play lists, click the Office Assistant, type "playlist," click Search, and then click to view "Create a play list to run presentations from the PowerPoint Viewer."

    NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If Microsoft Help is not installed on your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    For information about using command line switches with play lists, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
    Q176678 PPT97: Using Command-Line Switches with Playlist Files
    Q120802: Office: How to Add/Remove a Single Office Program or Component

    Additional query words: 8.0 play list playlists loop continuous 

    
Keywords          : kbdta kbviewer 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

    Last Reviewed: July 8, 1999