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Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
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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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