ID: Q189976
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Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer has the ability to run multiple PowerPoint slide shows, one right after another. To do this, it uses a playlist (.LST) file.
Playlist files must point to presentations or other playlists that are available at the time the playlist is opened. This means that you cannot make a playlist file that calls files on more than one floppy disk per disk drive.
If a presentation or playlist is not immediately available, or if the path or file name you have specified is incorrect, you will receive a message such as the following:
<drive>:\<path>\<filename>
Sorry, the file cannot be found.
<drive>:\<path>\<filename>
Sorry, the path or file name is invalid.
If you click Cancel button, the slide show stops and you are returned to the PowerPoint Viewer dialog box.
To create a playlist file, follow these steps:
1. In a text editor, such as Notepad, create a text file that lists
the PowerPoint presentations or other playlists you want PowerPoint
Viewer to use while running a slide show. Make sure the text file
contains one file name per line, similar to this:
;This is the beginning of the list file.
;Any line of text that comes after a semicolon is ignored
;by PowerPoint Viewer (you can use them as comments to
;yourself or to others who may run the playlist file).
C:\FILE1.PPT ; this file is on the hard disk
A:\FILE2.PPT ; this file is on a floppy disk in A:
;This is the end of the list file.
Additional query words: run-time run time PPTVIEW.EXE winppt Ppview32.exe
Keywords : kberrmsg kbviewer
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbprbLast Reviewed: July 23, 1998