Open PPSX in slide show mode

Steel Contributor
With the new links, it seems not possible to create a link to a PPSX which will directly open the presentation in slide show mode. Getting a link creates a link which opens the the presentation in normal mode by default.

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 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!
How do we do that?

I think the solution can be found here:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/open-an-o365-powerpoint-file-in-presentation-...

 

In short:

https://subdomain.sharepoint.com/personal/my_account_name/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc=powerpoint_item_guid&action=embedview&wdSlideId=slideId

hi, we are a year later and i want to know if u got any helpful replies? cause the problem still exist :(

@Abhimanyu Singh 

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/

 

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.

@NatinaDudley 

 

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-40e..." 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-40e...

 

Opens in SharePoint in slide  show mode.

 

hope this helps!

 

 

 

 

@LizRizziThis is the ONLY solution that has worked for me!  Thank you SOOOOO much!!

@LizRizzi  - nice one, that hint has helped me. My particular case was to add a launch button on a SPO page - using Preview mode you can just copy/paste the URL from the launched tab too.