Problems navigating in a secondary presentation

[Guest]

I have developed a PowerPoint module, which serves as a menu for a number of
other PowerPoint presentations. The menu file has 44 slides in it and in
addition to hyperlinks to the other PowerPoint presentations; it also has
sections with helpful information and some philosophical points. The menu
uses the kiosk mode which forces the user to use action buttons to navigate.

When a user hyperlinks to another file, that file is also in the kiosk mode
because of the setting in the original menu file. I want the user to be
able to use the arrow keys, mouse buttons and space bar to advance slides in
the secondary PowerPoint presentation. Unfortunately that does not seem to
be possible the way I have set things up. Is there a way to have the menu in
the kiosk mode but secondary presentations in the “Presented by speaker†mode?


I am using Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, and Windows XP.

Thank you.

 

[Austin Myers]

First, I would NOT use Kiosk mode at all. Instead I would remove the
"Advance On Mouse Click" settings for the slide you do not want them
clicking and advancing on.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your response. This partially answered my problem. By
removing the "Advance on Mouse Click" setting it prevents the user from
advancing with the mouse however they can still advance using the arrow keys
or space bar. Are there any suggestions on how to prevent this in some way
without affecting files opened by hyperlinking?

---Jack