Controlling PowerPoint From Within Runtime Revolution

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Fri Apr 17 06:10:42 EDT 2009


Hiya,

Looks like you're composing messages in HTML (using Word as the email  
editor?).

Change it to Rich Text or Plain Text, that should remove the double- 
spacing.

Cheers,

Luis.


On 16 Apr 2009, at 21:40, mfstuart wrote:

>
> Man I hate it when Outlook does this.
> Why does Outlook double space the lines?
> It does this whether I create the email body in Notepad (and copy  
> the text
> into Outlook) or directly in Outlook.
>
> Anybody know how to fix this ugliness in Outlook?
>
> Regards,
> Mark Stuart
>
>
>
> Mark Stuart wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I just built a stack to try what you are doing.
>>
>> I also downloaded and installed MS Powerpoint Viewer.
>>
>>
>>
>> I put a field on the stack with the name "Filename".
>>
>> In a button, I used the following script to open the powerpoint file
>> using the viewer.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>
>>    if fld "Filename" is not empty then
>>
>>       put fld "Filename" into thePPS
>>
>>       launch thePPS with "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 
>> \PowerPoint
>> Viewer\pptview.exe"
>>
>>    else
>>
>>       answer "no file selected"
>>
>>    end if
>>
>> end mouseUp
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In the field I typed: "C:\temp\MyPresentation.pps".
>>
>> This file I created in MS Powerpoint, saving it as a "pps" file type.
>>
>>
>>
>> It launched the power point. I ran the slide show.
>>
>> It quit and the focus returned to where I launched it, the RunRev
>> application.
>>
>>
>>
>> Where ever you launch the slide show from, the focus should return to
>> its originating place.
>>
>> Unless of course, the user goes to another opened application.  
>> Then the
>> focus may not return.
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH you,
>>
>> Mark Stuart
>>
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