Action button to previous animation

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Hello

I'm sure this question came up a lot but I didn't find an answer...

I have a presentaion with a few text boxs coming up each time I click,
I want to make a button on screen that will take me one "click" back.
exactly like the one that powerpoint is displaying on the bottom left
corner (I need to make it a visible designed button). The only buttons
I've managed to create take me to the "whole" slide back...
Thanks a lot.
Dan
 
Why not just use the PAGEUP key on your keyboard? Pressing it will go back
one animation until the beginning of the slide, then to the previous slide.
There is not a built in button setting to go "back" one animation, just
"back" one slide as you have seen.
 
It has to be in a designed button without keyboard access - that's the
problem
There is NO way to setup a button that will do the same action as
pageup?
 
I need it to be in a designed visible button and without the need to
access the keyboard..
There is NO way to create a button with the same function as pageup or
the navigation button of powerpoint?
 
Hi,

Place your animations on separate identical slides. Set the slides to No
Transition Effects and set the animations on each slide to play
automatically. When you scroll through the slides, the boxes will seem to
appear and disappear. Note: animations may not play again, see:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00598.htm

Glenna
 
It might be possible with VBA, but I haven't run across the
Properties/Methods before. Which version of PowerPoint do you have?

What exactly are you trying to accomplish with your presentation that you
need this feature? It might help provide another possible answer.
 
I'm using PowerPoint 2003.

I'm trying to minimize presentations I got that are seprated to a lot
of slides just for the option of back and forward animation by
animation and not slide by slide. It is used for lessons in a class
displayed on a big touch screen and therefore should have the option to
go back by a button and not keyboard.
I'm sure it's possible if the PowerPoint itself has this nav button
function.

Thanks again.
 
I'm using PowerPoint 2003.

I'm trying to minimize presentations I got that are seprated to a lot
of slides just for the option of back and forward animation by
animation and not slide by slide. It is used for lessons in a class
displayed on a big touch screen and therefore should have the option to
go back by a button and not keyboard.
I'm sure it's possible if the PowerPoint itself has this nav button
function.

Thanks again.
 
I'm using PowerPoint 2003.

I'm trying to minimize presentations I got that are seprated to a lot
of slides just for the option of back and forward animation by
animation and not slide by slide. It is used for lessons in a class
displayed on a big touch screen and therefore should have the option to
go back by a button and not keyboard.
I'm sure it's possible if the PowerPoint itself has this nav button
function.

Thanks again.
 
It might be possible with VBA, but I haven't run across the
Properties/Methods before. Which version of PowerPoint do you have?
Click to expand...

.Next and .Previous methods of the slide show window will take you to the
next/previous animation steps.
 
Look at "Shortcuts for PowerPoint" add-in at
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppshortcuts/ppshortcuts.html - it defines
shortcuts that you can use to assign as actions to shapes on slides. Look
at:
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppshortcuts/ppshortcuts_features_017.html

Do the following:
1. Download and install the add-in.
2. Insert the macros available at the above mentioned link.
3. Assign "PPShortcuts_AllShowsPreviousSlide" for running on mouse click for
a shape.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
 
Hmmm! Never tried it since there were already built-in Action Buttons to go
to the next or previous slides. Plus, I've never had a need to go to the
next or previous animation from a button.

I guess with that said, this person could press ALT+F11 to enter the VBE
window, click "Insert", "Module". Copy and paste the following code in the
right-hand side window, close the VBE window, put a couple of
buttons/objects on a slide that has several animations on it, right-click
each object and select "Action Settings", click the "Run Macro" option,
select the desired macro, make sure the "Highlight Click" checkbox is
checked, click the "OK" button, then go into Slide Show mode and test out
each button.

Here is some code that should work:

Sub PreviousAnimation()
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Previous
End Sub


Sub NextAnimation()
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Next
End Sub

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Hmmm! Never tried it since there were already built-in Action Buttons to go
to the next or previous slides. Plus, I've never had a need to go to the
next or previous animation from a button.
Click to expand...

Neither did I until just recently but a project I'm working on needs it.
The code below should work fine, I think.
 
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