how to go to the previous *visited* slide

[ward]

Hi,

I can not figure out how i can insert a link to go back to
the previous *visited* slide. Mark that i do not mean the
previous slide.
For example if i am at slide nr 5, which has a link to go
to slide nr. 9, how can i easily provide an option to go
back from slide nr 9 to slide nr.5 (which was the previous
visited slide).
The provided 'previous' option only allows to go back to
slide nr.8.

Configuration: Winb 2000, Powerpoint 2000 (might be able
to use powerpoint 2003 soon)

thanks for any suggestions,
Ward

 

[Sonia]

Does linking to "Last Slide Viewed" do the trick for you?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

When you set up your link, instead of choosing "Hyperlink" from the
Insert menu, choose "Action Settings" from the Slide Show menu. Click on
the radio button for "Hyperlink to..." and choose "Last Slide Viewed." I
always find it strange than PowerPoint offers two ways to do the same
thing, but each way works a little differently, and each way has slightly
different options. This is one of those cases.
--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/

 

[Sari]

If you insert or edit a hyperlink, one of the options
is "previously viewed." This option will return the user
to whatever slide sent him or her to the current slide.
If you use the AutoShapes action buttons, the button that
looks sort of like a U-Turn arrow will automatically set
up this kind of hyperlink (although you can change it if
you want to).

 

[Bill Foley]

You could insert the built-in action button. Click the "Autoshapes" icon on
the Drawing Toolbar, highlight "Action Buttons", then select the icon that
has a backwards arrow on it (Last Slide Viewed). Draw the button on your
slide. There you are!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

When you set up your link, instead of choosing "Hyperlink" from the
Insert menu, choose "Action Settings" from the Slide Show menu. Click on
the radio button for "Hyperlink to..." and choose "Last Slide Viewed." I
always find it strange than PowerPoint offers two ways to do the same
thing, but each way works a little differently, and each way has slightly
different options. This is one of those cases.

It's odd, indeed. There's a peculiar sort of logic to it, though.

If you create an action setting that links to a destination that can be
expressed as an explicit URL, PowerPoint treats it as a kind of dual-mode deal,
both Hyperlink (ie, accessible via Rightclick, Edit Hyperlink) and Action
Setting.

If the action setting's destination isn't explicit, then it's strictly an
Action setting in the UI (ie, even if you choose Edit Hyperlink, you get the
Action Settings dialog box).

A link to Slide 42 in a presentation is explicit. PPT knows what file and
where in the file it needs to go.

A link to End Show isn't.

Nor is a link to Previously Viewed Slide, since there's no way to know where
the user went first before coming "here". There's no specific slide in a
specific file PPT can point to.

Weird, eh?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ward

Previously Viewed Slide may help. But keep in mind that it doesn't work quite
the way you'd expect it to (like a browser's Back button).

If you go to Slide 10, then click Next, that takes you to Slide 11.

If you click a Previously Viewed link on Slide 11, that takes you back to 10.

11 is now the previous slide, so if you click a Previously Viewed link on Slide
10, that takes you back to 11, and now you're in a previously viewed loop. 11,
10, 11, 10 ...

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Steve,

Thanks for the explanation. I think I'll use this the next time I teach
my class about conceptual models. Without understanding the conceptual
model (as I didn't before this explanation), it seemed like some random
nonsense. With understanding the conceptual model, it makes sense and is
easier to use.

--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/

 

[ward]

-----Original Message-----

Hi,
I can not figure out how i can insert a link to go back

to the previous *visited* slide.

--cut--
Ward

Thanks all for your answers. Exactly what I needed.

Steve, thanks for pointing out the functional difference
with a browser's back button.
BTW: Is it possible to have a link or action setting with
the same functionality as a browser's back button?

Ward

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, thanks for pointing out the functional difference

with a browser's back button.
BTW: Is it possible to have a link or action setting with
the same functionality as a browser's back button?

Not within PowerPoint itself, which is a real shame.

Of course, if you convert the PPT to HTML and display the presentation in a
browser, your back button's your back button. ;-)

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality (browser "back" button
capability) that you are looking for.

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PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality, don't forget to send your
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