Hi - wonder if anyone can help me with this ...

I have prepared a CD that has several links that open new PowerPoint
files. At any given time the user needs to be able to click back to
MAIN MENU and return to main menu - easy enough but I want to
close ALL the other open windows (presentations) at the point they
click and return to the main menu.

Can I do this? If so, what is the best method?

Any help - greatly appreciated.

thanks

Clicking on a link to "End Show" will close the current presentation and window
and return you to the slide that you came from. Will that work? If so, use
Slide Show > Action Settings > Hyperlink To > End Show to link a button or text
object.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

"Andrew Robertson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi - wonder if anyone can help me with this ...
>
> I have prepared a CD that has several links that open new PowerPoint
> files. At any given time the user needs to be able to click back to
> MAIN MENU and return to main menu - easy enough but I want to
> close ALL the other open windows (presentations) at the point they
> click and return to the main menu.
>
> Can I do this? If so, what is the best method?
>
> Any help - greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:39:34 -0700, "Sonia" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Clicking on a link to "End Show" will close the current presentation and window
>and return you to the slide that you came from. Will that work? If so, use
>Slide Show > Action Settings > Hyperlink To > End Show to link a button or text
>object.

Hi Sonia

Sadly, it doesn't solve my problem because from the MAIN MENU there is
a sub menu that opens and from that sub menu the user chooses a
product. When the choose a product and are finished looking at that
product (which is a seperate pp file) I need both the product file and
the sub menu to close. Otherwise potentially a user could have many
windows open which would probably start to use up to much memory and
could have the user having to click multiple buttons to close the open
files. Does this make sense?

regards

Jeff

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Andrew Robertson wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:39:34 -0700, "Sonia" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >Clicking on a link to "End Show" will close the current presentation and window
> >and return you to the slide that you came from. Will that work? If so, use
> >Slide Show > Action Settings > Hyperlink To > End Show to link a button or text
> >object.
>
> Hi Sonia
>
> Sadly, it doesn't solve my problem because from the MAIN MENU there is
> a sub menu that opens and from that sub menu the user chooses a
> product. When the choose a product and are finished looking at that
> product (which is a seperate pp file) I need both the product file and
> the sub menu to close. Otherwise potentially a user could have many
> windows open which would probably start to use up to much memory and
> could have the user having to click multiple buttons to close the open
> files. Does this make sense?


If the submenus were slides w/in the same presentation as the main menu, then worst
case, there'd be two presentations open.

And as a bonus, the user would be able to look at another product from the same
submenu w/o having to navigate back from the main menu. That may or may not be a
useful thing in your situation, obviously.

Other than VBA, I don't know of any way to both end a presentation and perform
another action.

VBA might do the job if you're certain that the presentation will always be
delivered in PPT and not the viewer, and that the macro security will be set to
permit VBA to do its thing.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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"Andrew Robertson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:39:34 -0700, "Sonia" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >Clicking on a link to "End Show" will close the current presentation and
window
> >and return you to the slide that you came from. Will that work? If so,
use
> >Slide Show > Action Settings > Hyperlink To > End Show to link a button
or text
> >object.
>
> Hi Sonia
>
> Sadly, it doesn't solve my problem because from the MAIN MENU there is
> a sub menu that opens and from that sub menu the user chooses a
> product. When the choose a product and are finished looking at that
> product (which is a seperate pp file) I need both the product file and
> the sub menu to close. Otherwise potentially a user could have many
> windows open which would probably start to use up to much memory and
> could have the user having to click multiple buttons to close the open
> files. Does this make sense?

What Steve and Sonia said.

And, what about using Custom Shows? You could then use the Show and Return
feature under Action Settings/Hyperlink to/Custom Show to close them out.
You'd have to put the presentations all into one presentation and set up
custom shows, though.

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