Re: PowerPoint & System Variables

["Henry J. Wicko II" <henry -dot- wicko -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Does your notepad.exe reside in the My Documents folder?  (some
questions must be asked).  Would it differ that you point to where the
actual notepad.exe exists in your Programs folder?

Also, why not test your actual .exe?  What happens if the notepad.exe
works and you did not actually try the macro compilation you want to
use?

Henry

(who just got frustratingly going on the poor construction of a mobile
app today)

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> That's not the point, Rick. I'm merely using notepad.exe for my test. The
> real EXE is a compiled macro I wrote that, tested separately, is a
> known-good entity.
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Rick Stone <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris
>>
>> As notepad is already in the system path, have you just tried to run
>> notepad.exe? I do this using Shortcut controls inside CHM files and it seems
>> to work dandy.
>>
>> Cheers... Rick :)
>>
>>
>> Chris Morton wrote:
>>
>>> I've got an action button on a PPT slide set to run the following:
>>>
>>> *%HOMEPATH%\My Documents\notepad.exe*
>>>
>>> Run in Slide Show mode, PPT complains that it cannot find *%HOMEPATH%\My
>>> Documents\notepad.exe*.  Why can't PPT deal with system variables?
>>>
>>> I can think of two workarounds, but wondered if any of you had some other
>>> bright ideas.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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