How do I to replay an animation when I go back to a slide that ha.

[Guest]

I am building a complex kiosk preso in Powerpoint with audio/animations,
buttons etc etc. When I navigate to a slide and play all audio/animationsfor
that slide, leave it to got to another and then navigate back to it the
audio/animations will not play again. Is there a way of telling Powerpoint
to play this slide again in full?

Frustrated!

 

[Ute Simon]

I am building a complex kiosk preso in Powerpoint with audio/animations,
buttons etc etc. When I navigate to a slide and play all
audio/animationsfor
that slide, leave it to got to another and then navigate back to it the
audio/animations will not play again. Is there a way of telling
Powerpoint
to play this slide again in full?

If you enter a slide from the end of the presentation, you see it in the
state of finished animations. If it's always the same slide you want to
replay, insert a blank slide before it, set this to automatically advance
after 00:00 sec and link to this slide. You will not see it, but you enter
the slide from the beginning.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Luc]

Outontheboat,
We share your frustration, a workaround is to link to a blank slide before
the said slide with the transition timing set to zero seconds.
Luc

 

[Guest]

Having an extra blank page for every animation might not
always seem to be the best for everybody, For example it would require
some adjustment to your navigation scheme.

Since you are running a kiosk presentation, you might be using triggers
to start your annimations (PPT2002 and 2003 only) or to advance to the next
page. If so, you can just give "an extra click" to restart the animations,
or you could
put in exit animations on the second click of the trigger. On the "extra
click"
, i.e. third click on a trigger that has 2 "play on mouse click" animations
following the
trigger, you'll start the animation from a blank screen.

 

[Ellen Finkelstein]

If you use the blank slide method, I've found that I can see it just for a
split second, even if the timing is set to 00:00. So instead I create a
duplicate of the slide, and put that in front of the slide I want to show,
setting the timing to 00:00. Then the transition is quite invisible.

Ellen

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[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not reset animations and slide timings (including
automatically playing inserted multimedia) on a previously viewed slide
when you jump to it from a later viewed slide. Of course, they are reset
when the presentation loops back to the beginning or you navigate
"naturally" to a slide from it's previous slide. Here is a KB article for
PowerPoint 2000 that describes a couple of workarounds (similar articles
exist for other versions of PowerPoint):

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=197701

If it is important to you (or anyone else reading this message) that
PowerPoint include a method for choosing whether or not animations on
slide(s) replay when revisted without normal looping (perhaps a slide or
presentation option, or a Action Setting which can be chosen during slide
show), without having to resort to VBA or add-ins, don't forget to send
your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft by either:

PREFERRED METHOD:

A) If you are using Microsoft's web-based, online newsreader for Office
communities
(http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.p
ublic.powerpoint), check to see whether or not the suggestion has been
submitted before (Show -> Suggestions for Microsoft) and, if so, add your
vote to the suggestion submission. If the suggestion has not been submitted
before, click on the "New" drop-down menu and choose "Suggestion for
Microsoft" from directly within the newsreader web page.

OR, NEXT BEST METHOD:

B) If you are using another newsreader (such as Microsoft Outlook Express),
submit your suggestion using your web browser at the following address:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

It's VERY important that, for EACH wish, you describe in detail, WHY it is
important TO YOU that your product suggestion be implemented. A good wish
submssion includes WHAT scenario, work-flow, or end-result is blocked by
not having a specific feature, HOW MUCH time and effort ($$$) is spent
working around a specific limitation of the current product, etc. Remember
that Microsoft receives THOUSANDS of product suggestions every day and we
read each one but, in any given product development cycle, there are ONLY
sufficient resources to address the ones that are MOST IMPORTANT to our
customers so take the extra time to state your case as CLEARLY and
COMPLETELY as possible so that we can FEEL YOUR PAIN.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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