Create a playlist and run it from the PowerPoint Viewer

You can use a playlist to run presentations automatically, in a sequence, from the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer.

  1. Open Microsoft Notepad and type the file name for each presentation on a separate line, following these guidelines:
  2. On the File menu in Notepad, click Save. Select the folder you want to save the playlist to, type a name in the File name box, type .lst as the file extension; then click Save.
  3. To run the playlist, go to the folder in which you installed the viewer and double-click the viewer file, Ppview32, to open it.
  4. If you have set timings for the presentations and want to use them, select the Using Timings, if present option under Advance slides.
  5. In the Files of type box, click Playlists in the list, click the playlist file, and then click Show.

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