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: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:44:57 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Joe <email@hidden> message dated "Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:52:48 -0700."
Joe <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I know how to open it; but I don't want to
bring either the app or the document to "the front". It's "open" that's
the problem; it brings up the PP window containing the document.
> 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
Thanks for trying, Joe.
Bill
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