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Action Settings Stop All Animations in Kiosk Slide Show

 
 
Jane Hawkey
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      18th Jul 2003
Here's the setup: This is a looped slideshow running on a touchscreen
kiosk.
Each slide has pieces of Animated text (i.e. blinds), and touchscreen
navigation buttons with Action Settings (i.e. hyperlink to next slide).

If the kiosk slide show is running and no one touches the screen, the
show displays each slide and the animations run, and after the last
slide, the show restarts back at the first slide and the text animations
display one by one, slide by slide.

BUT, if a viewer touches one of the Action Set navigation buttons (i.e.
to jump ahead to another slide) on a slide, then all past-viewed slide
animations become static. When that past-viewed slide comes round again,
the animations have stopped; the "now un-animated" text displays all at
once.

What is wrong?

 
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Echo S
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      24th Jul 2003
hm. There's an issue -- well, not exactly an issue, but -- when PPT
returns to a slide, it returns to the *end* of the slide. If your action
settings are moving back and forth in the presentation, that's probably
what you're seeing.

The standard workaround is to place a dummy "blank" slide immediately
before the "real" slide and then to link to the "dummy" slide. Give the
"dummy" a 00-second automatic transition so it moves to the beginning of
the "real" slide automatically.

If you're using PPT 2002 (aka XP), you can probably overcome that need
through the animation settings, but I haven't tried that out, so I'm not
positive about that.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Jane Hawkey wrote:
>
> Here's the setup: This is a looped slideshow running on a touchscreen
> kiosk.
> Each slide has pieces of Animated text (i.e. blinds), and touchscreen
> navigation buttons with Action Settings (i.e. hyperlink to next slide).
>
> If the kiosk slide show is running and no one touches the screen, the
> show displays each slide and the animations run, and after the last
> slide, the show restarts back at the first slide and the text animations
> display one by one, slide by slide.
>
> BUT, if a viewer touches one of the Action Set navigation buttons (i.e.
> to jump ahead to another slide) on a slide, then all past-viewed slide
> animations become static. When that past-viewed slide comes round again,
> the animations have stopped; the "now un-animated" text displays all at
> once.
>
> What is wrong?

 
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