Possible to hyperlink to a specific slide in a PPT file?

[MikeL04]

I need to search the contents of a PowerPoint file and if any matches are found then provide a hyperlink to the PPT on the slide where the match was found. Is this even possible? I have done a tonne of searching on the subject with no luck.

Thanks for any and all help or suggestions.

Mike

 

[adamroof]

Have you been here...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;222929

Call the object model and see what you can find on text searching. Sounds like a fun project!

 

[Isadore]

Mike - when you get this solved don't forget to post back and share in some of the details. This could be a nice tool for sure. Someone may drop in that's had this experience.

 

[MikeL04]

Thank you for the comments. Adamroof, yes I have looked into the idea of MS Office Automation but it is not reccomended by MS for use in clent/server apps such as in ASP.Net So I am trying to avoid it at all costs.

I did find how to link to an individual slide:

Slides within a presentation can be directly referred using the following scheme:

<filename>#<SlideID>,<SlideIndex>

So for example the following hyperlink lets us jump to a specific slide:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/PDC/4086/WSV322.ppt#335,23,Agenda

Ref:

http://officeone.mvps.org/ppttips/refer_to_slide_in_presentation.html

Now it is easy enough to index PPT files with MS Index Server however I do not know of a way to extract the SlideID and SlideIndex from it based on the resulting matches for our search term. If I could do this then my problem is solved and we then have a way to link directly to the slide of a presentation where the hit(s) for our search term occurerd.

Anyone know if it is possible to extract this information from a result set from Index Server?

Thanks again,

Mike