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Launching a PowerPoint file in Slide Show view from Sharepoint Online
Thanks for your reply, but I've tried that as well.
I originally saved my PPTX as a PPSX, because I wanted the file to launch as a PowerPoint Show. I saved it in Kiosk mode, because I wanted my users to click the Actions Buttons in order to progress throught the slides. Unfortunately, when I put a link to it in SharePoint, it just opens in Normal View instead of Slideshow View. I tried embedding it, but is disables the kiosk aspect of it.
If I could just get it to launch in the desktop application in a PowerPoint show. I've seen in other forums that you just need to add a bit of text at the end of the URL. Something like PowerPointView=PowerPointShow, but I don't know what prefixes it.
The pdf solution is what I've used as well. Buttons work as in PPT. The only drawback is maintaining two files, PPT and PDF when edits are needed.
- Still doesn't work like we want it to...
JMOlin90 OMG, how difficult can it be Microsoft, do you ever read these blogs and create PTRs for the Microsoft design or development teams to address? Could Microsoft be proactive or perhaps let us know when Sharepoint will have a more usable solution?
- OK so I do finally have a solution that I found here:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/open-an-o365-powerpoint-file-in-presentation-mode/9b922332-4198-46c8-b1ac-62fa9f3a123d?auth=1
In short, open the PPTX file in SPO in Editing mode. In the URL you will see "?action=edit". Change that to "?action=embedview". It seems to work perfectly. It would have been nice if someone from MS could have just answered that 4 years ago...
As an aside you can even open to a specific slide by adding "?action=embedview&wdSlideId=slideId". Of course, getting the slideId is proving tricky. I got it once but now I cannot figure out how I did it!
