Marquee’s macro editor has five PowerPoint® specific commands you can assign to cues or macro buttons:
You will need a separate PC to run your presentation that is connected to your Marquee processor via a LAN or cross-over Cat5 cable. You must download the template PowerPoint file from the Horizon Control web site and modify it to include your own slides. It is important to name the file ending with a number between 1 and 9. This number will match the macro's Machine ID number:
In your version of PowerPoint, you may need to go into TOOLS|MACROS|SECURITY and set the Security Level to Medium or Low. You must do this before loading and saving your presentation.
When you are ready to run your show choose TOOLS|MACROS|Macros… from the PowerPoint menus and RUN the macro called Marquee:
Check the Machine_ID then press the Run button. The machine running the presentation will now wait for commands from Marquee. Running the show using this method does not prevent you from navigating the slides using standard methods. When the presentation is done, press the End button.
You may need to edit the “hosts” file on the PowerPoint machine and add a line that specifically calls out the IP address of your Marquee processor.
Note:
The first time you run the Marquee macro in PowerPoint, you may be presented with a Windows Security Alert:
This is Windows telling you that it notices you want to listen to Marquee. Choose Unblock.
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