The component has two properties. Set them in your initial function if you want open multiple instances.

axOfficeViewer.ActivationPolicy = OfficeViewer.ActivationPolicy.KeepUIActiveOnAppDeactive;
axOfficeViewer.FrameHookPolicy = OfficeViewer.FrameHookPolicy.SetOnFirstOpen;

Please use the NotifyCtrlRead event and have a try.
 
function OA1_NotifyCtrlReady() {
document.form1.EDrawComponent.ActivationPolicy = 4
document.form1.EDrawComponent.FrameHookPolicy = 1
}
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript FOR=OA1 EVENT=NotifyCtrlReady>
<!–
 OA1_NotifyCtrlReady();
//–>
</SCRIPT>

or

but without any success

axOfficeViewer1.Menubar = false;
axOfficeViewer1.Titlebar = false;
axOfficeViewer1.Toolbars = false;

When I double click the tab to open the Word doc in a separate floating panel, I again suppress them with the same code, both in the new window and again on the tab by referring back to the original instance.

The instance on the tab creates space above the document and acts as though it’s going to show the menu and tool bars. However, they never appear and that space is corrupted with partial drawing of the window behind and any window you drag across that tabbed area.

Note that everything works fine if I don’t suppress the menu and tool bars.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Our requirements needs us to load the files in realtime. However the call to _axOfficeViewer.SlideShowOpenAndPlay() takes roughly 7 seconds to complete.

Is there a method that allows us to load the powerpoint container beforehand (during program startup) and then set the powerpoint file to run at a later stage?

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

But this leads to another problem: the inner office application is reloaded everytime the control is activated. So if you wanna hide some of the toolbar buttons, you have to use the code in the activation blocks instead of the control initialize statement.