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Open PPSX in slide show mode
Earlier (3 months ago) the link used to open the presentation in view mode. But now it doesn’t. It forces the user into edit mode even if it is PPSX and not PPTX.
How to get a link to a PPSX which open directly into a slide show view?
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I found that appending this to the end of the URL does the trick.
?sourcedoc=<guid>&action=embedview
- No it still opens in an edit view, allowing users to click anywhere to advance slides, not the same as in a slide show.
This had me troubled because I was trying to open in Slide Show mode from Teams and SharePoint for the same reasons and after trying all the suggested methods, I was coming up short. Here's how I made it work:
Go to the document library in SharePoint
Click on the ellipsis next to the file name and select Preview
In Preview mode, select the ellipsis in the top menu and select embed and you will get something that looks like this:
<iframe src="https://name.sharepoint.com/sites/documentlocation/_layouts/15/embed.aspx?UniqueId=dccb8f9e-babc-40e0-a4ca-74b71c5a973a" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen title="filename.ppsx"></iframe>
Copy this part of the embed code and insert as a link in your page or Teams channel:
https://name.sharepoint.com/sites/documentlocation/_layouts/15/embed.aspx?UniqueId=dccb8f9e-babc-40e0-a4ca-74b71c5a973a
Opens in SharePoint in slide show mode.
hope this helps!
The key change is replacing the action parameter with embedview so that animations can be displayed. The manual method is to click Start Slide Show when the PowerPoint file opens in Office Web App.
https://fyano.wordpress.com/2018/06/13/launch-powerpoint-files-into-slideshow-in-office-365/
hi, we are a year later and i want to know if u got any helpful replies? cause the problem still exist :(
I think the solution can be found here:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/open-an-o365-powerpoint-file-in-presentation-mode/9b922332-4198-46c8-b1ac-62fa9f3a123d
In short:
https://subdomain.sharepoint.com/personal/my_account_name/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc=powerpoint_item_guid&action=embedview&wdSlideId=slideId
I have found the same thing, I have a folder in SharePoint that contains all my ppsx 'shows' that I direct staff to view. These have all now begun opening as PowerPoint files and then the viewer has to launch as a slideshow. This defeats the object of having the files saved as ppsx.
Can this function be put back please, it used to work well last year but for some reason it no longer functions this way.
- Perhaps we need to ping some MS folks around here, otherwise no one will see this!
