KB189976 - PPT97: Viewer Cannot Access Multiple Disks Using Playlist

SUMMARY

Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer has the ability to run multiple PowerPoint slide shows, one right after another. To do this, it uses a playlist (.LST) file.

Playlist files must point to presentations or other playlists that are available at the time the playlist is opened. This means that you cannot make a playlist file that calls files on more than one floppy disk per disk drive.

If a presentation or playlist is not immediately available, or if the path or file name you have specified is incorrect, you will receive a message such as the following:

<drive>:\<path>\<filename> Sorry, the file cannot be found.

-or-

<drive>:\<path>\<filename> Sorry, the path or file name is invalid.

If you click OK, PowerPoint Viewer proceeds with the slide show, using only those presentations or playlists that are immediately available.

If you click Cancel button, the slide show stops and you are returned to the PowerPoint Viewer dialog box.

MORE INFORMATION

In a text editor, such as Notepad, create a text file that lists the PowerPoint presentations or other playlists you want PowerPoint Viewer to use while running a slide show. Make sure the text file contains one file name per line, similar to this:

      ;This is the beginning of the list file.
      ;Any line of text that comes after a semicolon is ignored
      ;by PowerPoint Viewer (you can use them as comments to
      ;yourself or to others who may run the playlist file).
      C:\FILE1.PPT       ; this file is on the hard disk
      A:\FILE2.PPT       ; this file is on a floppy disk in A:
      ;This is the end of the list file.

Save and name the file with an .LST extension.