Getting rid of "End of slide show, click to exit." message slide at the end

[Leo Bueno]

I am linking from one slide show (let's call it "primary") to other
slide shows ("secondaries"), which I click to if needed as I am going
along the primary show.

When I click on the link to a secondary slide show, for example, from
a text box in the primary, all is well. The secondary slide show
opens just fine and works well.

The problem is that at the end of each slide show there is a dark
slide with an "End of slide show, click to exit." message.

After clicking as indicated in the message, I return back to the
primary slide show.

I would like to avoid the dark slide at the end of the secondaries, so
there will be a smooth transition back to the primary.

Advise please.

Using PPT 2000.

Thanks.

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[Leo Bueno]

Found setting help online, see:

http://www.annoyancescentral.com/dailyfix/archives/ms_powerpoint/

I am linking from one slide show (let's call it "primary") to other
slide shows ("secondaries"), which I click to if needed as I am going
along the primary show.

When I click on the link to a secondary slide show, for example, from
a text box in the primary, all is well. The secondary slide show
opens just fine and works well.

The problem is that at the end of each slide show there is a dark
slide with an "End of slide show, click to exit." message.

After clicking as indicated in the message, I return back to the
primary slide show.

I would like to avoid the dark slide at the end of the secondaries, so
there will be a smooth transition back to the primary.

Advise please.

Using PPT 2000.

Thanks.

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[Geoff Cox]

I would like to avoid the dark slide at the end of the secondaries, so
there will be a smooth transition back to the primary.

Leo,

If you are using the 2003 PowerPoint Viewer it is not possible to
avoid the black screen.

I have had this confirmed by MS.

The best I have come up with so far is to have an action button (with
a hyperlink to the presentation which I wish the user to move to)
appear after all other animations on the last slide have finished,
with the hope that the user will click on the action button rather
than pressing enter key and get the black screen.

Not much of a solution but would like to hear fo better ones!

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Echo S]

Found setting help online, see:

http://www.annoyancescentral.com/dailyfix/archives/ms_powerpoint/

Yay! (That's my book.)

 

[Chris Watts]

Leo,

If you are using the 2003 PowerPoint Viewer it is not possible to
avoid the black screen.

I have had this confirmed by MS.

The best I have come up with so far is to have an action button (with
a hyperlink to the presentation which I wish the user to move to)
appear after all other animations on the last slide have finished,
with the hope that the user will click on the action button rather
than pressing enter key and get the black screen.

Not much of a solution but would like to hear fo better ones!

Cheers

Geoff

That will of course leave the "black slide" presentation open and using
resources.

Chris

 

[BK]

Does it help to put a slide at the end of the show (before the black "end of
slide show") that is blank but matches the rest of the show as far as
background? We often add a blank slide at the end of the show that has no
text or pictures or anything other than a background that matches the slide
design for the rest of the show. That way, we can also "rest" on that slide
during the show or during other transitions.

Hope this helps -----------

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

That will of course leave the "black slide" presentation open and using

resources.

Yes, though probably not nearly enough to be concerned over.

 

[Chris Watts]

Yes, though probably not nearly enough to be concerned over.

True, unless perhaps like me you are sometimes forced to run presentations
on a geriatric laptop that will only just support Win 95 :-(

Chris

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

True, unless perhaps like me you are sometimes forced to run presentations
on a geriatric laptop that will only just support Win 95 :-(

Been there, done that, waited for it. ;-)

The extra overhead of a single presentation with a black slide in it is nothing
to worry over.