# Can a Flash Button launch Power Point

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 19, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-a-flash-button-launch-power-point/23553 "2003-06-19T14:02:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![P\_Noble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8c91f0/32.png) [@P\_Noble](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/P_Noble)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-a-flash-button-launch-power-point/23553/1 "2003-06-19T14:02:40Z")

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Can I make a flash animation, put a button on it that will lauch a powerpoint file on the viewers computer???

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-a-flash-button-launch-power-point/23553/2 "2003-06-19T17:02:00Z")

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You need to use a .bat file and then in the .bat file you need a thing that opens the .ppt (Is that right?) file. Ill find the tut on flashkit, thats where I learnt it

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-a-flash-button-launch-power-point/23553/3 "2003-06-19T17:05:25Z")

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The following text was taken from flashkit, that is how you do it. I assume you know how to make a .bat file if not then post and Ill say.

> Launching a PowerPoint Slide Show from Flash  
> By utilizing FSCommand exec and a batch (.bat) file (PC), you can launch a PowerPoint slide show from your Flash presentation menu.

1. In Flash, assign an action script to your link with the following fscommand exec:

(in this example FSCommand exec executes a batch file called launcher.bat)

1. Create a batch file (i.e. launcher.bat) containing a single command:

(In this example SlideShow\_A.pps resides in a folder called presentations)

1. You must publish a flash .exe file (or run your .swf file directly since this won’t work with an .swf file called by an html document)

2. Right click on your launcher.bat file and check the “Close on exit” box. (This will create an MSDOS shortcut in the same root as the batch file. This is necessary! Do not change or delete this new file! Note, that you will still call the launcher.bat file with fscommand exec.)

Note that step 4 immediately closes that ugly MSDOS prompt window so it’s not hanging around waiting for the .pps file to launch, and won’t be sitting there on top of your flash menu when you exit out of your slide show.

B.T.W., why must you launch a batch file? FSCommand exec isn’t capable of opening a specific file with an application, just the application itself.

Hope it works, if not then sent an attachment and Ill look at it.