使用Applescript在演示文稿中运行指定幻灯片的幻灯片放映

Question

I want to run PowerPoint slide show for only a particular slide. After my research, I tried following but I did not get expected result. Both of the scripts, starts slide show but from the first slide.

1)

`tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
    activate
    open "/Users/sanjeev/pppp.ppt"
    set slideShowSettings to slide show settings of active presentation
    set starting slide of slideShowSettings to 4
    set ending slide of slideShowSettings to 4
    run slide show slideShowSettings
end tell`

2)

`tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
    activate
    open "/Users/sanjeev/pppp.ppt"
    set slideShowSettings to slide show settings of active presentation
    run slide show slideShowSettings
    go to slide slide show view of slide show window 1 number 4
end tell`

The second script gives an error also: error "Microsoft PowerPoint got an error: slide show view of slide show window 1 doesn't understand the go to slide message." number -1708 from slide show view of slide show window 1

I saw a question Want Applescript to change a Keynote presentation to a particular slide But I think that works only for KeyNote.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Answer 1

This seems to work. It looks buggy to me. When the script is run the screen goes black, then flashes the slide then goes black then finally displays the slide. I don't know if this is due to the script or the implementation of Applescript/ppt from Microsoft. I say the latter.

tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
    set temp to active presentation's slide show settings
    set temp's starting slide to 2
    set temp's ending slide to 2
    set temp's range type to slide show range
    set temp's advance mode to slide show advance manual advance
    run slide show temp
end tell