pointer appears after a certain time and blocks next slide

[Hugo]

Hi!

I've tried to look for an answer to this problem on several other
sites, but to no avail, so I hope someone here can help me. After a
slide has been showing for a certain time the pointer will appear and
will block any manual slide advance (it actually seems to disable any
keyboard input). The problem is solved by right clicking to have the
cursor/pointer disappear, and the presentation returns to normal. Not
a big problem if you know the trick, but I've set up a presentation
laptop for numerous different speakers who get very confused.
Does anyone know what's going on and how to get rid of this behaviour?

Thanks!

Hugo

 

[David Marcovitz]

Hi!

I've tried to look for an answer to this problem on several other
sites, but to no avail, so I hope someone here can help me. After a
slide has been showing for a certain time the pointer will appear and
will block any manual slide advance (it actually seems to disable any
keyboard input). The problem is solved by right clicking to have the
cursor/pointer disappear, and the presentation returns to normal. Not
a big problem if you know the trick, but I've set up a presentation
laptop for numerous different speakers who get very confused.
Does anyone know what's going on and how to get rid of this behaviour?

Thanks!

Hugo

Strange. I'm wondering if there is an animation set that brings a
transparent shape onto the slide after a few seconds. That would explain
just about everything you are describing. When the cursor appears, is it the
hand or the arrow? How long is the certain amount of time? Could it be that
the PC is going into some kind of powersaver mode? What version of
PowerPoint are you using?

--David
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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland