Opening a ppt from a .bat file?

[Juan Pablo]

I am doing some work on Flash and I need to be able to open a PowerPoint presentation from a .bat file ... any ideas?

For a PDF I use

start thefile.pdf

and it works just fine, buy by some strange reason it doesn't work with ppts

Thanks in advance :)

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Have you tried starting PowerPoint from within the bat file, with the /C command line switch? See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoi...1538891033.aspx

[Juan Pablo]

Have you tried starting PowerPoint from within the bat file, with the /C command line switch? See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoi...1538891033.aspx

My problem is that I need to open it in different computers, with different configurations and powerpnt.exe is not usually in the path of the users. Any ideas?

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

I think if Office is correctly installed, you won't need the full path, as it is already in the standard %PATH% environment variable. Just use POWERPNT.EXE (I just tested it; it opens PowerPoint):

powerpnt.exe /C "My Documents\docname.ppt"

[Juan Pablo]

I think if Office is correctly installed, you won't need the full path, as it is already in the standard %PATH% environment variable. Just use POWERPNT.EXE (I just tested it; it opens PowerPoint):

powerpnt.exe /C "My Documents\docname.ppt"

It doesn't work on my computer but don't worry I already solved it. I didn't remember I can open any file from the command line (.bat) just by typing its name. I feel stupid