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| - | How to Edit the PowerPoint for the ground and first-floor screens. | ||
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| - | You will be editing the **default.ppsx** file, you cannot directly open the file (it will open in show mode). | ||
| - | Instead, you need to open the **PowerPoint** then open **default.ppsx** where you can then edit the slides. | ||
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| - | The editable file is located on **pptstore** in a shared folder called com | ||
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| - | From Windows, Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2016. | ||
| - | The first thing to do is Map the network share | ||
| - | - Open Computer -> click Map network drive | ||
| - | - Select your desirable Drive Letter | ||
| - | - In the Folder type \\pptstore.dcs.shef.ac.uk\com | ||
| - | - Optional: Leave or untick Reconnect at logon | ||
| - | - Tick Connect using different credentials | ||
| - | - Click Finish | ||
| - | - Login box appears, login with your DCS account and password. e.g comsciad\dcsaccountname (if its enabled to access this directory) | ||
| - | - Optional: to remember the password or not | ||
| - | - Click OK | ||
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| - | Secondly, use PowerPoint | ||
| - | - Open Powerpoint 2016 | ||
| - | - Open Other Presentations (otherwise opening it again, will appear in Recent) | ||
| - | - Click Browse | ||
| - | - Locate the drive letter you selected to map the share and double click to open it | ||
| - | - Select Foyer then Default.ppsx and click Open | ||
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| - | From Macintosh, Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2016 | ||
| - | - First thing to do is connect to the file share | ||
| - | - Go > Connect to Server | ||
| - | - type %%smb:// | ||
| - | - Login box will appear | ||
| - | - Type in your dcsaccount and password (if it's enabled to access this directory) | ||
| - | - Optional: Remember this password in my keychain | ||
| - | - Click Connect **You are now connected** | ||
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| - | Secondly, use PowerPoint | ||
| - | - Open Microsoft Powerpoint | ||
| - | - Click Open -> On my Mac | ||
| - | - Under Shared find and click pptstore | ||
| - | - then click foyer then default.ppsx | ||
| - | - Editing default.ppsx | ||
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| - | Please remember to add a timer of default 12seconds to new slides, Otherwise, the show will stop and not move to the next slide. | ||
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| - | When you have finished editing the slides, just close PowerPoint, and save the file by overwriting it. | ||
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| - | When will the screens use the new slides? | ||
| - | The machines will use new slides from the next day (8 AM) | ||
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| - | If any problems/ | ||
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