Number 233 - September 2002

POWERPOINT Producing A Remote PowerPoint Presentation
This is a job for Pack And Go. Since you want to put the presentation on a floppy disk, place a formatted blank floppy disk into drive A:. Also put your Office installation disc into your CD-ROM drive--you'll need it later. If your presentation is very long, you should format two or three floppies. Pack And Go prompts you for a new disk when one fills up.     Open your presentation in PowerPoint and choose File, Pack And Go. When the Pack And Go wizard opens, click Next. Since you want to save the current presentation, make sure the Active Presentation check box is selected and click Next again.	Now select the A: Drive radio button and click Next. Click Next again, then select the Viewer For Windows 95 or NT radio button and click Next. Click Finish Now to create your Pack And Go disk.     When your friend receives the disk, he should put it into drive A: and double-click the Pngsetup.exe icon. This installs the slide show and the viewer on his computer. He can now play the show even though he doesn't have PowerPoint. The sound will also work.     Note: When we rely on this method, we have had problems with losing the correct timing on single slides that loop continuously using custom animation.
Number 233 - September 2002