PowerPoint Problem

[topie]

Hello,

I am using MediaLab 2006 and PowerPoint 2007. Whenever the experiment gets to the PowerPoint slide, it hangs up and stops responding. I read older posts and made sure that PowerPoint is not open when I conduct the experiment but it's still not working. Will someone please help?

[jarvis24]

Can you run sample 1, condition 2 from samples folder? It should present a brief pp show followed by a que file.

[topie]

Hi there,

Thank you for your reply. I am new to the forum and I can't find the samples folder (embarrassing!). Will you please post the address?

Thank you,

Tina

[jarvis24]

Assuming you are using v2008 or prior, the samples will be located (usually) here:

c:\medialab\samples

or

c:\program files\medialab\samples

If all else fails, you can search your hard drive for "MediaLab" to find the MediaLab folder. Once you have found that, the samples folder should be located within.

[topie]

Thank you so much for your help. I can run Sample 1, Condition 2. I will try to open and save the PP show so that I can use it as a template for my own study (is this possible?). Hopefully, that will alleviate the challenges I'm having. I will also look into how I can prevent the participant from knowing that it's a PowerPoint show. Otherwise, I think they'll realize that it's false feedback. I know that I saw forum comments on that. Thank you again! This is VERY helpful!

Tina

[jarvis24]

Thanks for the update. Do you think think might be a version issue then? The PowerPoint show that comes with that sample was created with an older version of PowerPoint. Maybe, in PP v2007, you need to use the "save as" option to make it compatible with earlier versions of PowerPoint? If you try this, please let me know how it goes!