PowerPoint 2003 - Queue for Presentations

[Guest]

We run a "kiosk" presentation prior to worship. I need to be able to quickly
"kill" that presentation and start the sermon presentation. Is there a simple
way to do this with some sort of script or macro?

The kiosk is a looping presentation. I want to be able to end it at any
point in the loop and load the sermon automatically.

I am using PowerPoint 2003.

 

[Kurt]

Dear Rob,
It sounds like you could use Take-off ShowPoint (www.take-off.as).
Have a look at it. With that tool you can send a new presentation to another
computer/monitor. It will automatically interrupt the running slide show and
start the new presentation.

Kurt

 

[Guest]

This is not going to work. I need to have the presentations pre-loaded. This
program looks for a file to be sent into a particular folder. When it detects
the new presentation it switches.

We have no way to send. We need to have it waiting in the queue.

Thank you for the suggestion though!

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Rob S,

This powerpoint tutorial was made for just this situation....
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlooping.htm

Just press "Esc" at any time to quit the looping presentation

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc

 

[Kurt]

Rob,
Just give it a try with ShowPoint; you will be amazed how fast it switches
from 1 presentation to another without preloading the ppt!
But indeed you need to be able to send (copy) the presentation to that
folder.

Maybe someone else comes up with another idea.

Good luck
Kurt

 

[Guest]

An even simpler method would be to make a PPT presentation with hyperlinks to
the presentations you want to show. Click on one and it will open in show
mode - press Esc and it dissappears leaving your hypelink presentation up.
click on another link and the next presetnatin is there. You could make the
background of your hyperlink powerpoint a theme graphic and you are off to
the races.

 

[Chirag]

You might want to look at SundayStar add-in at
http://officeone.mvps.org/sundaystar/sundaystar.html - it enables you to
preload all presentations and switch between presentations using keyboard
shortcuts.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html