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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: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:31:53 PDT
  • Comments: In-reply-to Bill Janssen <email@hidden> message dated "Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:50:08 -0800."

Bill Janssen <email@hidden> 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
>
> There don't seem to be any options documented for "open", in contrast to
> most of the other commands.

It seems like what I need is some alternative to "open", like "load",
which tells PP to create a new "presentation" object from the specified
file, but doesn't automatically create a document window for it.

Bill
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