Ending multiple custom shows?

[Guurt]

Hello,

I have a presentation in which several custom shows are opened while
searching through the PowerPoint 2003 slides. When exiting the file you must
click as much times as there are custom shows open! Is their a function to
short-cut this? As to close them all at once? Or even better, quit
PowerPoint with an action button?

Thanks
Bobo

 

[Kathy J]

When you link to the Custom Show using either Hyperlink or Action Settings,
you will get an option to "Show and Return". It's a checkbox just below the
slide preview. Click this box. When you finish showing the custom show, it
will close and return you to the slide that called the show.

--
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[Guurt]

Hello Kathy,

Thank you, but this is not the answer I am looking for...When a custom
presentation consists of several slides and from within the custom
presentation (i.e. the middle slide) you click to another custom
presentation (i.e. without going back and return) and this custom
presentation consists of several slides again and again from the middle
slide you click to another custom presentation that consists of several
slides...
Then when you want to end the presentation you have to click as much times
as customs shows are open.

So, is there a function to end all shows or even quit PowerPoint?

(I am not making this up. We have build a Sales Kit for account management
and they can show 100 topics)

Thanks
Bobo

 

[Guest]

"Shortcuts for PowerPoint" add-in at http://officeone.mvps.org/ppshortcuts/ppshortcuts.html provides a default Ctrl+Q shortcut to end all running slide shows.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

 

[Kathy J]

Bobo,
I understand what you are describing, but I don't have an immediate answer.
I would recommend Chirag's add-in, but I am guessing that you don't have
control over all the machines, so couldn't guarantee that the add-in was
always there. Let me think on this a bit and see what I can come up with. I
have an idea that might work but want to play with it some....

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

If the presentation can run VBA (not using the Viewer and macro security
on all machines set to low or medium), then a simple macro should do the
trick:

Sub GetMeOutOfHere ()
ActivePresentation.Quit
End Sub

Hit Alt-F11 to open the VBA Editor. Choose Module from the Insert menu.
Paste this procedure into the module and close the VBA editor. Now,
create a button and for Action Settings, choose Run Macro (since this is
the only macro, it will automatically pick this one). Be sure to save
your presentation before pressing this button.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/