I would love to be able to " sequence" my powerpoint presentation during my
presentation. I have one page with a number of keywords with checkboxes,
giving the audience the option to indicate what they want to see. After the
selection of the audience I want to proceed with one click to the pages that
were selected for viewing ( which were " checked") . I know I can use
hyperlinks to pages, but then I would have to return to the page with the
keywords everytime, something I would like to avoid.

Furthermore I wonder ( in the same context) if there is an option which
makes it possible to push a button on one page in order to trigger an action
on another ( again, so you have the option earlier on to decide which
information your are going to show).

Any help would be more then welcome since I haven't found anything on how to
make it work.

A big thanks in advance,

> After the selection of the audience I want to proceed with one click to
> the pages that
> were selected for viewing ( which were " checked") . I know I can use
> hyperlinks to pages, but then I would have to return to the page with the
> keywords everytime, something I would like to avoid.


I'm not clear on why you would want to avoid that so I need a bit more
information here. I would think returning to the "menu" slide would be a
good thing. What is the alternative? Go directly from one checked slide to
another? I would argue that you provide better context if you return to the
menu slide and then proceed off to the next checked item. Better context and
much easier to create.

But again, maybe I am not understanding your true hope here...





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With some simple VBA coding, you could simply hide the unchecked slides and
proceed thru the rest of the presentation skipping the unchecked slides.

So the question becomes, is a VBA solution workable in your venue?
1) Is VBA support installed on the computer you will be using to design
the presentation?
2) Is VBA supported on the computer you will be using to show the
presentation.?
3) Is the presentation going to be distributed or just used on your
set-up?

If VBA is an option, then adding the code like this ...

Private Sub CheckBox1_Click()
ActivePresentation.Slides(2) _
.SlideShowTransition.Hidden = _
Not CheckBox1.Value
End Sub

Private Sub CheckBox2_Click()
ActivePresentation.Slides(3) _
.SlideShowTransition.Hidden = _
Not CheckBox2.Value
End Sub

and so on ....



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"Maarten B." <Maarten B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B37FD8C2-A4B2-43D8-B829-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I would love to be able to " sequence" my powerpoint presentation during
>my
> presentation. I have one page with a number of keywords with checkboxes,
> giving the audience the option to indicate what they want to see. After
> the
> selection of the audience I want to proceed with one click to the pages
> that
> were selected for viewing ( which were " checked") . I know I can use
> hyperlinks to pages, but then I would have to return to the page with the
> keywords everytime, something I would like to avoid.
>
> Furthermore I wonder ( in the same context) if there is an option which
> makes it possible to push a button on one page in order to trigger an
> action
> on another ( again, so you have the option earlier on to decide which
> information your are going to show).
>
> Any help would be more then welcome since I haven't found anything on how
> to
> make it work.
>
> A big thanks in advance,
>

First of, thanks Rick and Bill for your answers.

In answer to Ricks response, I also want to show somehow the chosen keywords
during the continuation of the slides, in order to keep the structure clear.
However The page with all the answers is a page full of keywords which is not
to attractive. I wonder if this " interpage triggering" is possible.
The code Bill provided me will do the trick of the sequencing I believe,
thanks for that!
I hope you can help me with the trigger thing, but thanks anyway for the
quick responses.

With kind regards

"Bill Dilworth" wrote:

> With some simple VBA coding, you could simply hide the unchecked slides and
> proceed thru the rest of the presentation skipping the unchecked slides.
>
> So the question becomes, is a VBA solution workable in your venue?
> 1) Is VBA support installed on the computer you will be using to design
> the presentation?
> 2) Is VBA supported on the computer you will be using to show the
> presentation.?
> 3) Is the presentation going to be distributed or just used on your
> set-up?
>
> If VBA is an option, then adding the code like this ...
>
> Private Sub CheckBox1_Click()
> ActivePresentation.Slides(2) _
> .SlideShowTransition.Hidden = _
> Not CheckBox1.Value
> End Sub
>
> Private Sub CheckBox2_Click()
> ActivePresentation.Slides(3) _
> .SlideShowTransition.Hidden = _
> Not CheckBox2.Value
> End Sub
>
> and so on ....
>
>
>
> --
> Bill Dilworth
> A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
> Users helping fellow users.
> http://billdilworth.mvps.org
> -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
> vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
> yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
> com www.pptfaq.com
> ..
>
> "Maarten B." <Maarten B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B37FD8C2-A4B2-43D8-B829-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I would love to be able to " sequence" my powerpoint presentation during
> >my
> > presentation. I have one page with a number of keywords with checkboxes,
> > giving the audience the option to indicate what they want to see. After
> > the
> > selection of the audience I want to proceed with one click to the pages
> > that
> > were selected for viewing ( which were " checked") . I know I can use
> > hyperlinks to pages, but then I would have to return to the page with the
> > keywords everytime, something I would like to avoid.
> >
> > Furthermore I wonder ( in the same context) if there is an option which
> > makes it possible to push a button on one page in order to trigger an
> > action
> > on another ( again, so you have the option earlier on to decide which
> > information your are going to show).
> >
> > Any help would be more then welcome since I haven't found anything on how
> > to
> > make it work.
> >
> > A big thanks in advance,
> >
>
>
>