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How do I package a PowerPoint card to send for automatic play?
12/18/22 | Me, Myself, & I

Posted on 12/18/2022 8:05:20 AM PST by EinNYC

I just produced a PowerPoint Chanukah card. It came out very cute. Now I'd like to send it to all my friends. I'd like it to automatically play when they click on the attachment, and not need mouse clicks to activate all the animations I put in. How do I do that? Thanks in advance, PP maven FReepers, and a happy Chanukah.


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1 posted on 12/18/2022 8:05:20 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

Honestly, you don’t. There’s a setting but Office is super paranoid and disables everything “automatic” on documents made from other computers. Unless they’ve gone into the deep setting and turned off protected mode (I’m assuming it’s a setting anyway) it won’t autoplay.


2 posted on 12/18/2022 8:09:53 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: EinNYC

You’re fighting a compatibility issue, there is no flipbook standard, file type issue with most people. I would convert it to the much bigger video at 1040P and publish it on one of the many video streaming sharing sites. The video sites will take care of scaling and everything else on every platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-n3Fdv9z7A&t=18s


3 posted on 12/18/2022 8:11:40 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: EinNYC

Save the attachment as a .pps not a .ppt


4 posted on 12/18/2022 8:33:03 AM PST by snork55 (theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die... )
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To: EinNYC

NOW that’s been put to rest - maybe someone can tell me HOW to print address labels using Open Office...Everything I get from the program tells me how to do it from a DATA BASE...I just want to print my own name and address on labels.

I have a box of Avery labels so I know I’ve printed labels in the past when we had a home based business but it must have been from a different WORD program.

Driving me nuts going over and over it and I don’t want to have to BUY address labels. I have tons of labels in my husband’s name and he passed away a year and a half ago. I write donation checks with my name only to various organizations and still get labels in my husband’s name.

Any ideas or tell me to get lost??


5 posted on 12/18/2022 8:35:39 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

File>New>Labels


6 posted on 12/18/2022 8:50:46 AM PST by jim macomber ("Bargained for Exchange" "Art & Part" "A Grave Breach" "Sovereign Order " - www.jamesmacomber.com)
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To: EinNYC

All your friends have Microsoft Office?


7 posted on 12/18/2022 9:41:44 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: jim macomber

That part is easy - got there SEVERAL TIMES - over and over and from there NADA!!!!


8 posted on 12/18/2022 10:14:10 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush
Use Word to print the envelope, and just dump the labels.

On the Word menu Click->Mailings->Envelopes. A dialog box appears where you can enter the delivery address and the envelope size. Fill it in and let 'er rip. (Set your printer's paper guides for the envelope.)

9 posted on 12/18/2022 11:42:33 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Thank You Rush

File new label put your address in the box pick your label format then new document


10 posted on 12/18/2022 11:48:42 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: EinNYC

My email program Thunderbird will block automatically as there is a potential of viruses.


11 posted on 12/18/2022 2:04:30 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: GingisK

Wish I still had WORD....Good idea tho’. I could use the same program to do labels AND envelopes.. Glad I don’t want to do envelopes as I don’t see anything to do with envelopes on Open Office. As much as I dislike Bill Gates, hate to admit his WORD was a superior word processing program.

Thank you....


12 posted on 12/18/2022 2:33:15 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: DouglasKC

Could you copy/paste what you’re looking at..I don’t see NEW DOCUMENT...

I have FILE/NEW/LABELS/LABELS TAB and after that I’m scratching my head or screaming!

Thanks.


13 posted on 12/18/2022 2:35:22 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: DouglasKC

Sorry about my #10 post - I do see NEW DOCUMENT next but then?


14 posted on 12/18/2022 2:44:09 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: EinNYC

Before I retired, IIRC, I saved as .pps. It would play automatically, and there was music. It was before 2008 (when I retired), and done in Office 2003. Don’t know about newer versions.


15 posted on 12/18/2022 2:45:51 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: EinNYC

Is “Chanukah” compared to “Hanukkah the same as “Kyiv” compared to “Kiev”?


16 posted on 12/18/2022 3:08:18 PM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

This will save the aggravation that Microsoft introduces for no reason what so ever!

Word - lose blank page after inserting envelope by Chris Menard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g4PZGoIazY


17 posted on 12/18/2022 4:23:51 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: GingisK
Is “Chanukah” compared to “Hanukkah the same as “Kyiv” compared to “Kiev”?

Yup. All alliterations of the Hebrew .

18 posted on 12/18/2022 5:05:15 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: protoconservative

That’s what I did. I used the “Record” facility in PowerPoint and recorded it. I then sent the file to Youtube and published it. It was the best way to see the animations and hear the sounds I incorporated into it, and then I simply had to send my friends the link to the Youtube video. Bingo!


19 posted on 12/18/2022 5:06:54 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Thank You Rush

It should have the document with the labels as long as you typed your address in the little box


20 posted on 12/18/2022 5:17:24 PM PST by DouglasKC
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