Automating MS Powerpoint slide presentation

Hi,
I have an assignment to automate MS Powerpoint slide presentation on the web. I have to allow user to navigate the Powerpoint slides on the web. How do I get things start?

Hi,
Is it that, you want the user to explain something and in the meantime the mouse should click the "next" button automatically and do some other events at some particular parts of u'r presentation.
If this is the case, u can use, java.awt.Robot class.
Please let me know it u have any doubts or I have got u'r question wrong.
regards Stallon

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flashgodx,
> Interested in all opinions or comments concerning
experiences
> with the limitations or extendability of Slide
Presentation Vs.
> Timeline Document development using actionscript 2.0
I'm interested in this, too. (Thanks for bringing up the
topic!) My
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use
screens -- though maybe it's too early to tell. I could be
completely off
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crowd with
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since Flash 3.
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along with the phenomenal advances in ActionScript in recent
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under-the-hood
mechanisms really started "clicking" with me. (To be sure,
the learning
process never ever stops ... I'm *still* learning, and things
are *still*
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lean-but-powerful
environment I already know and love.
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Not sure what you mean here.
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Ditto.
- Likes
This is reflected in my views on Pros and Cons.
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Ditto.
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Again, not sure what you mean.
- Customization
Good question!
- Coding Development/Programming
None of the programming books I've read even touch screens.
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Control of what?
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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