[Comphelp] seamanship downloading

Tue Apr 24 10:00:11 EDT 2007

Rdaybell,

You are the first person to hit the nail on the head.  When we get an 
education CD from USPS it should work right out of the box.  I still can't 
use Seamanship 2007 CD as it was designed to do.  Hopefully, someone from 
the computer help desk will come through.

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rdaybell at earthlink.net>
To: <psoucy at sc.rr.com>
Cc: "Member's helping Members' w/Computer Issues" <comphelp at usps.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Comphelp] seamanship downloading

> Sounds like more effort then some volunteer instructors care to put up 
> with.  If the Adobe program is needed to activate the power point 
> presentations the instructor needs to have a CD included in the instructor 
> package to use to load what is needed.  Many of us are not computer guru's 
> so we need a simple and straight forward way to use the ed department 
> power point presentations without having to go hunt down something on the 
> Internet to make the program work.
>
>
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>>   1. Re: 2007 Seamanship (Lance Jensen)
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>>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:16:41 -0700
>>From: "Lance Jensen" <LJJensen at comcast.net>
>>Subject: Re: [Comphelp] 2007 Seamanship
>>To: "Paul R. Soucy" <psoucy at sc.rr.com>
>>Cc: Member's helping Members' w/Computer Issues <comphelp at usps.org>
>>Message-ID: <001501c78512$c2b2ed00$6501a8c0 at JensenLaptop>
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>>Paul -
>>
>>Perhaps you have found the answer to your problems with the Seamanship 
>>material.  If so great!  If not, you got me interested in investigating 
>>the problem and learning how one goes about inserting flash animations 
>>(.swf files) into PowerPoint presentations.
>>
>>I took the advice of someone who suggested pasting the message you receive 
>>into the Google search engine.  This works very well, returning a number 
>>of people complaining about the same or a similar problem.
>>
>>The best referral I found was a number of tutorials at the following url:
>>
>>http://www.flashgeek.com/tutorials/index.htm
>>
>>There are a number of tutorials with step-by-step methods for checking 
>>that the Shockwave Flash Object is installed on your computer and methods 
>>for inserting .swf files into PowerPoint presentations. The latter was 
>>very helpful to me (I teach AP and some of SBC). Both the ABC CD and the 
>>ABC CAI CD contain many, many flash animations which can be copied to a 
>>hard drive and then inserted into PP presentations.
>>
>>I learned a ton and it works very well.
>>
>>So, thanks for getting me started investigating!  I don't have a copy of 
>>the Seamanship CD yet, so I can't try to duplicate what is happening to 
>>you.
>>
>>Lance
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>>  From: Paul R. Soucy
>>  To: LJJensen at comcast.net
>>  Cc: Member's helping Members' w/Computer Issues
>>  Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:20 PM
>>  Subject: [Comphelp] 2007 Seamanship
>>
>>
>>  Recently our squadron received the new 2007 Seamanship Course and 
>> quickly started a new class.  Whenever we try to run automation from a PP 
>> slide such as slide 12, Chapter 3, or any other slide, we get the 
>> following error message:
>>
>>  ''Some controls on this presentation can't be activated.  They might not 
>> be registered on this computer."
>>
>>  Now comes the fun part.  I've run this PP presentation from three 
>> different computers.  Program runs as advertised on my personal Desktop 
>> and Laptop, however when using the squadron's (new) laptop automation 
>> will not work.   The squadron's laptop also has Boat Smart loaded and 
>> automation works fairly well, not 100%, but enough to get by.
>>
>>  I've compared Power Point program settings between my desktop and the 
>> squadron's laptop and both appear to be the same.  However, I'm no 
>> computer expert so I might be missing something.
>>
>>  I've also loaded the latest flash.exe (ver 9) in the squadron's laptop 
>> ''C'' drive, plus in the same directory/folder where Seamanship was 
>> loaded.  Nothing worked.  All three computers are running Windows XP 
>> operating system
>>
>>  I would be most grateful if someone can assist us fixing this problem or 
>> lead me in the right direction to speak to an expert.
>>
>>  Thanks in advance.
>>
>>  Paul Soucy, AP
>>  SEO, Long Bay
>>
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