Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
- Subject: Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
- From: Joe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 13:52:48 -0700
At 2:50 PM -0800 3/7/09, Bill Janssen wrote:
>Anyone know if it's possible to open a PowerPoint deck without bringing
>it to the front? I'm using
>
> tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
> open "myfile.ppt"
> end tell
The "launch" command will normally start up an application without bringing it to the front.
You need to use a path for the document.
tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
launch
open alias "DD6:Users:joe:Desktop:Anemia2009.ppt"
end tell
The above works for me when run from Script Editor.
Joe
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