I'm looking to discover whether there is an easy way for me to construct a
"next chapter" advance function.

I'm a schoolteacher who throws together slide shows for my classes. Many
consist of multiple examples of problem-solving techniques. I'd like an easy
way to advance to the next problem type when one of my classes gets the hang
of one.

Is there a a way to set a marker that I can enable me to jump to a "next
chapter" postiion -- ideally with a keypress?

(Fooling around with a mouse to point at a hyperlink is awkward; it's what
I'm hoping to avoid.)

I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.

Hi there

You said you were open to all/any suggestions so here's my non-technical one
(there will probably others along later with VBA answers...)

Have a standard number of slides in each 'chapter' - even if some are
'dummies' (i.e. blank & hidden) so your chapters start on slide 10, 20, 30,
40 etc. Then type the slide number and enter to get there - so '40+enter' to
get to the start of chapter 4. Make sense? I said it was low-tech ;-)

Lucy
--
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

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"ppetto" wrote:

> I'm looking to discover whether there is an easy way for me to construct a
> "next chapter" advance function.
>
> I'm a schoolteacher who throws together slide shows for my classes. Many
> consist of multiple examples of problem-solving techniques. I'd like an easy
> way to advance to the next problem type when one of my classes gets the hang
> of one.
>
> Is there a a way to set a marker that I can enable me to jump to a "next
> chapter" postiion -- ideally with a keypress?
>
> (Fooling around with a mouse to point at a hyperlink is awkward; it's what
> I'm hoping to avoid.)
>
> I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.

Another thing to try would be to have a menu slide with links to a series of
custom shows. Add an end show action button to each slide and make sure you
tick show and return when you set up the links. Get back if that makes no
sense.

PS "I'm a schoolteacher who throws together slide shows for my classes" Tut
tut! ;0)
--
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"aneasiertomorrow" wrote:

> Hi there
>
> You said you were open to all/any suggestions so here's my non-technical one
> (there will probably others along later with VBA answers...)
>
> Have a standard number of slides in each 'chapter' - even if some are
> 'dummies' (i.e. blank & hidden) so your chapters start on slide 10, 20, 30,
> 40 etc. Then type the slide number and enter to get there - so '40+enter' to
> get to the start of chapter 4. Make sense? I said it was low-tech ;-)
>
> Lucy
> --
> MOS Master Instructor
> www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au
>
> PowerPoint Live 2007 28-31 October in New Orleans www.pptlive.com
> See you there
>
>
>
> "ppetto" wrote:
>
> > I'm looking to discover whether there is an easy way for me to construct a
> > "next chapter" advance function.
> >
> > I'm a schoolteacher who throws together slide shows for my classes. Many
> > consist of multiple examples of problem-solving techniques. I'd like an easy
> > way to advance to the next problem type when one of my classes gets the hang
> > of one.
> >
> > Is there a a way to set a marker that I can enable me to jump to a "next
> > chapter" postiion -- ideally with a keypress?
> >
> > (Fooling around with a mouse to point at a hyperlink is awkward; it's what
> > I'm hoping to avoid.)
> >
> > I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.

In article <35DE2CF6-8935-4851-A06A-(E-Mail Removed)>, Ppetto wrote:
> I'm looking to discover whether there is an easy way for me to construct a
> "next chapter" advance function.
>
> I'm a schoolteacher who throws together slide shows for my classes. Many
> consist of multiple examples of problem-solving techniques. I'd like an easy
> way to advance to the next problem type when one of my classes gets the hang
> of one.
>
> Is there a a way to set a marker that I can enable me to jump to a "next
> chapter" postiion -- ideally with a keypress?

Something like this might work:

Draw a small rectangle on slide 1
Hyperlink it to the first slide of Section Two
Copy it to all of the other slides in Section One

In Section Two, repeat the same steps, but this time the link points to the
first slide in Section Three.

And so on.
And so forth.
Until it's cooked.

Now here's the bit that makes it useful: while playing a slideshow, PPT lets
you hit the TAB key to move from one hyperlink to the next and Enter to
activate the currently highlighted link.

So:

Start your show, navigate as you normally would with the keyboard, please step
away from the mouse and all that. To jump to the next section, press TAB then
Enter. Boom. You're there.

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