PPT97: Viewer Cannot Access Multiple Disks Using Playlist

• Microsoft PowerPoint 97 For Windows

SUMMARY

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.

-or-

<drive>:\<path>\<filename> Sorry, the path or file name is invalid.

MORE INFORMATION

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. 




2. Save and name the file with an .LST extension.

Additional query words: run-time run time PPTVIEW.EXE winppt Ppview32.exe

Keywords : kberrmsg kbviewer
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb