Page advance question

[Marko]

I have an animation sequence that should simply advance to the next page
after the last animation, as it stands the presenter waits for the
animation to finish then clicks, or forgets and gets confused. Is there
a way to trigger a page advance following the last animation, e.g. an
exit animation, after previous, advance to next page

TIA
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[Sonia]

Set the slide transition to automatic, after XX seconds.

 

[Marko]

Hi Sonia

Set the slide transition to automatic, after XX seconds.

That would be the next slide, sorry but that doesn't work, I just double
checked, the whole slide then animates automatically and I can't have that.

am I wishlisting again?

this one should be easy, as it is I always wondered why slides didn't
have the same animations as objects, also the object animation follows
the slide's automatically anyway, maybe: two animations objects that
play automatically, Page In (which we have) and Page Out.

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[Ellen Finkelstein]

If you only need to do it once, you can have the objects disappear and then
place the content that is now on the next slide on the first slide. In other
words, combine the two slides and put the objects on top of one another.
After the first set of objects disappear, the second set will appear. It's
complicated, but can be done.

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[Bill Foley]

You could have a button that says "Continue" that is the last thing to
animate on the slide. Set the Action Setting of the button to go to the
next slide.

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[Bill Dilworth]

If I am understanding your plan; you want to start a slide, then manually
start an animation that when finished starts the transition to a new slide.

This is easy enough to do, provided that you think in terms of appearances,
not reality. Follow these steps...

1) Take the beginning slide (we'll call it slide 1 here) and insert
duplicate slide.
2) Remove the manually triggered animations from slide 1
3) Remove the transition on slide 2 (Set to no transition)
4) Set the auto advance on time to 00:01 for slide 2
5) Change the trigger method for the animation to 'after previous'

The first slide will display and hold as long as you would like. When you
decide to advance, the show changes to the next slide immediately, but there
is no visual difference. The animation starts immediately on the second
slide and when complete, transitions to slide 3.

The audience is only aware of 2 slides, the first and third. You, being the
tricky presenter you are, don't tell them about the middle one they didn't
know they saw.

If you need any help with these steps, please post back.

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[Adam Crowley]

I'm with you on this, Marko.
Although there are workarounds I don't understand why setting the slide
transition to automatic should make all manual cues automatic too.
Shouldn't PowerPoint treat a manual cue in the same way as a video clip set
to 'Pause slideshow'?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Setting the slide transition speed suggests that you want the slide to be on
the screen for that duration. It automates the animations in order to be
able to accommodate the slide duration you have required. Makes sense from
that perspective.

I agree that a animation cue to progress to the next slide would be a useful
new toy in PowerPoint, has everyone that feels this way dropped a note to
the wishlist?

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[Adam Crowley]

From that perspective it makes sense but from another perspective it doesn't
;-)
I'd settle for a 'next slide' animation though if it did the trick.

 

[Marko]

If you only need to do it once, you can have the objects disappear and then
place the content that is now on the next slide on the first slide. In other
words, combine the two slides and put the objects on top of one another.
After the first set of objects disappear, the second set will appear. It's
complicated, but can be done.

I have done that too but in this case, again, it messes up the outline

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[Marko]

It took a minute but I see what you are saying: put the last sequence in
an intermediate slide. This won't work in my case since the slide in
question has a couple of motion paths with shrinking, I can't manage to
recreate the object in exactly the new size/position

If I am understanding your plan; you want to start a slide, then manually
start an animation that when finished starts the transition to a new slide.

This is easy enough to do, provided that you think in terms of appearances,
not reality. Follow these steps...

1) Take the beginning slide (we'll call it slide 1 here) and insert
duplicate slide.
2) Remove the manually triggered animations from slide 1
3) Remove the transition on slide 2 (Set to no transition)
4) Set the auto advance on time to 00:01 for slide 2
5) Change the trigger method for the animation to 'after previous'

The first slide will display and hold as long as you would like. When you
decide to advance, the show changes to the next slide immediately, but there
is no visual difference. The animation starts immediately on the second
slide and when complete, transitions to slide 3.

The audience is only aware of 2 slides, the first and third. You, being the
tricky presenter you are, don't tell them about the middle one they didn't
know they saw.

If you need any help with these steps, please post back.

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Marko Jotic, MMCT Holdings Int. Inc.
"Common sense is anything but common".
From the notebooks of Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein.
Handmade knives, antique designs, exotic materials at
http://www.knifeforging.com/

 

[Marko]

Setting the slide transition speed suggests that you want the slide to be on
the screen for that duration. It automates the animations in order to be
able to accommodate the slide duration you have required. Makes sense from
that perspective.

not really, as usual I call this MS assuming it knows better than the
user, why should ALL the transitions on a slide be the same timing?

I agree that a animation cue to progress to the next slide would be a useful
new toy in PowerPoint, has everyone that feels this way dropped a note to
the wishlist?

I will, that's why I brought it up

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[Marko]

Specifically: add an "After Last Animation" option to the Advance to Next
Slide choices? Wouldn't that be nice...

Actually I would suggest simply that 2 fixed animations be always there:
enter slide, and, exit slide

this would give us two things:
1) real control, especially when a slide is linked to another
presentation, it could act differently in each without changes
and, eliminate the fact that slides don't have the same animations as
slide objects (for the longest time there was no Fade transitions
between slides, the most obvious one to use)

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[Marko]

You could have a button that says "Continue" that is the last thing to
animate on the slide. Set the Action Setting of the button to go to the
next slide.

leaving the way it is is simpler, just click, but then that's what I
want to eliminate, the extra click

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