Configure PowerPoint using interop API

Question

Hello. I am using powerpoint interop API to open a slideshow from a new instance of PowerPoint (in this case, PowerPoint 2007).

In my app, I need to avoid the mouse changing the slide or showing up the right-click menu, so I manually configured that in PowerPoint.

What I did:

1.- For left click I went to "Animations">"Advance slide" and unchecked "On mouse click".

2.- For right click I went to "PowerPoint Options">"Advanced">"SlideShow" and unchecked "Show menu on right mouse click".

I would like to know how to do steps "1" and "2" programatically using the API, since I want my app to work in the same conditions in other computers.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

For number 1, you are looking for the SlideShowTransistion interface and in particular the AdvanceOnClick property. It looks like you need to set it for each slide in the presentation:

pptSlide.SlideShowTransition.AdvanceOnClick = Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoFalse;

For number 2, I can't find anywhere this is exposed through the interop API. The only method I can find to disable it is to modify the registry key (this would be per user install).

On my Powerpoint 2003 install it is controlled by the

HKEY_USERS\Unique-ID-For-User\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Options\SSRightMouse

reg key.