[ms office - 2007] Edit a running Powerpoint/Self refreshing

[pettit87]

We currently run a powerpoint presentation to show students the status of repairs and when their laptop is ready for collection from the ICT support team. We have a monitor mounted in a foyer for students to view. This is monitor is linked to a computer running a powerpoint presentation.

 

We are currently having to stop the powerpoint and edit when the status of a repair changed. This is about 10-15 changes a day, each time having to vnc to the computer running the presentation and editing the file.

 

Is there a way to edit a powerpoint presentation that is running and make it auto-refresh containing the changes. If not possible via powerpoint is there another solution?

 

Many Thanks

[djm968]

A browser based solution would probably be a better option. You should be able to throw together a bit of html and code to read the "Repair" status from a text file and refresh this every 30mins or so. Google is your friend!

[pettit87]

Any sample code or example of this would be very useful

[localzuk]

How about saving your presentation as images and using this little app I wrote? LZSlideshow - Localzuk

[p858snake]

There is also another app in the digital signage threads that cover what you want.

[john]

How about using Showpoint - PresentationPoint | ShowPoint control remotely we use this on our Digital Signage systems, we update the PPT and it re-loads automatically so you just need to edit the original on the server and it will sort itself out