adding a "back home" button to tool bar

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Using Powerpoint 2003 and would like to add a "button" to a web presentation
available to each slide that would bring the viewer back to my company home
page (or the page that they started the powerpoint presentation from within
our web pages).

I guess that I could add a hyperlink in a footnote to each slide - that may
be best because then it would also be active in full screen mode, but it used
to be that you could add a home page button to a web presentation (office 97).

Is there a better method than what I am considering?

Thanks,

Peter
 
Using Powerpoint 2003 and would like to add a "button" to a web presentation
available to each slide that would bring the viewer back to my company home
page (or the page that they started the powerpoint presentation from within
our web pages).

I guess that I could add a hyperlink in a footnote to each slide - that may
be best because then it would also be active in full screen mode, but it used
to be that you could add a home page button to a web presentation (office 97).
Click to expand...

PPT's HTML changed bigtime from 97 to 2000.

You could save time/trouble by adding the footnote on the slide master or if
you prefer a home button, choose View, Master, Slide Master.

On the slide master do Autoshapes, Action Buttons, click the Home button (or any
of them you like, really). Click on the slide to add the button then when the
Action Settings dialog comes up, choose Hyperlink to: URL and type in the url
you want to link to.

That do it for ya?
 
Thanks Steve,

That is exactly what I ended up doing. Only problem with this is that when
you view the powerpoint presentation in full screen mode (on the web page)
then the "home" button doesn't work - you have to "end show" to go back to
regular view, then click on the action button. my trial web presentation is
now posted at http://www.jrsweb.com/EU_IMPD.htm

Seems that in full screen mode any click just moves you through the slides.
Makes sense I guess.

Anyway you see around the full screen mode issue? Probably not, and maybe
it is not all that bad - but a bit kludgy with the button being there and
nothing you can do with it.
 
FWIW, it seems to work for me. I navigate at full screen mode, click on the home
button (on any slide). it takes me there. The only thing when I come back it
brings me back to the second slide, which I'm sure is not what you want

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Thanks Steve,

That is exactly what I ended up doing. Only problem with this is that when
you view the powerpoint presentation in full screen mode (on the web page)
then the "home" button doesn't work - you have to "end show" to go back to
regular view, then click on the action button. my trial web presentation is
now posted at http://www.jrsweb.com/EU_IMPD.htm

Seems that in full screen mode any click just moves you through the slides.
Makes sense I guess.

Anyway you see around the full screen mode issue? Probably not, and maybe
it is not all that bad - but a bit kludgy with the button being there and
nothing you can do with it.
 
Thanks Steve,

That is exactly what I ended up doing. Only problem with this is that when
you view the powerpoint presentation in full screen mode (on the web page)
then the "home" button doesn't work - you have to "end show" to go back to
regular view, then click on the action button. my trial web presentation is
now posted at http://www.jrsweb.com/EU_IMPD.htm
Click to expand...

Odd. Here the home button works and takes me back to your home page but still in
fullscreen mode, and F11 won't break out of it (because it's in a frame, I suspect).
Seems that in full screen mode any click just moves you through the slides.
Makes sense I guess.
Click to expand...

That might not happen if you choose to omit navigation buttons in your Publish to Web
options (you'll have to supply your own navigation buttons in that case, but that's
simple enough)
Anyway you see around the full screen mode issue? Probably not, and maybe
it is not all that bad - but a bit kludgy with the button being there and
nothing you can do with it.
Click to expand...

Not using PPT, no. Modesty, if I had any, would forbid me to mention our PPT2HTML
add-in that gives you much more control over the html you get from PPT.
Free full functioning demo at: http://ppt2html.pptools.com
 
I am looking at your HTML solution - but I do this so rarely I am not sure I
want to work with an additional tool.

I am trying to figure out how to simply remove the "Slide Show" button and
text from the toolbar, but I am struggling to find the code that puts it
there. I really don't need to slide show functionality and it does seem to
mess things up for me. I do see that the "home" action button I created
works in full screen mode, but I also have the problem of going to "home" in
full screen mode that you can't readily get out of.

Anyone know how to get rid of that part of the navigation tool bar?

I see that it seems to be controlled by the file "outline.htm" in the second
table definition. I can get rid of the "slide show" text by removing the
"div" parameter that includes those words and I can rid of that part of the
button image by removing the buttons.gif statement of the following img
parameter. But, I am still left with a mouse over blank button that takes me
to full screen mode. If I remove any more of this table definition I seem to
loose the entire navigation bar.

Maybe best to just not include the navigation bar and put my own on the
slides somehow. Not much room to do this and it seems like a good bit of
extra work.

Any thoughts on my ramblings? Seems easiest to modify the "outline.htm"
navigation bar stuff to remove the slide show function, but I have limited
HTML knowledge to do this correctly.

thank for any help

Peter
 
I am looking at your HTML solution - but I do this so rarely I am not sure I
want to work with an additional tool.
Click to expand...

If it's a once-in-a-while-only thing, I don't blame you. I'd feel the same way about
it.
I am trying to figure out how to simply remove the "Slide Show" button and
text from the toolbar, but I am struggling to find the code that puts it
there. I really don't need to slide show functionality and it does seem to
mess things up for me. I do see that the "home" action button I created
works in full screen mode, but I also have the problem of going to "home" in
full screen mode that you can't readily get out of.
Click to expand...

If you supply all of your own navigation buttons through PPT action buttons or the like,
you can probably turn off the navigation feature in its HTML export. I think that may
get rid of most of the other stuff as well. Worth a try.
Maybe best to just not include the navigation bar and put my own on the
slides somehow. Not much room to do this and it seems like a good bit of
extra work.
Click to expand...

Not that much - View, Master, Slide Master and add action buttons for Next/Previous/Home
and you're pretty much there, no?
 
If you remove the navigation option (put in Kiosk mode) before you publish to a
web page will get rid of the full screen button.

Your home button works fine for me I get in and I get out. I think if you were
to put the home button on each page rather than the master you would probably
have better luck returning to the slide you left from rather than returning to
slide 2 in your case.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


I am looking at your HTML solution - but I do this so rarely I am not sure I
want to work with an additional tool.

I am trying to figure out how to simply remove the "Slide Show" button and
text from the toolbar, but I am struggling to find the code that puts it
there. I really don't need to slide show functionality and it does seem to
mess things up for me. I do see that the "home" action button I created
works in full screen mode, but I also have the problem of going to "home" in
full screen mode that you can't readily get out of.

Anyone know how to get rid of that part of the navigation tool bar?

I see that it seems to be controlled by the file "outline.htm" in the second
table definition. I can get rid of the "slide show" text by removing the
"div" parameter that includes those words and I can rid of that part of the
button image by removing the buttons.gif statement of the following img
parameter. But, I am still left with a mouse over blank button that takes me
to full screen mode. If I remove any more of this table definition I seem to
loose the entire navigation bar.

Maybe best to just not include the navigation bar and put my own on the
slides somehow. Not much room to do this and it seems like a good bit of
extra work.

Any thoughts on my ramblings? Seems easiest to modify the "outline.htm"
navigation bar stuff to remove the slide show function, but I have limited
HTML knowledge to do this correctly.

thank for any help

Peter

Steve Rindsberg said:
Thanks Steve,

That is exactly what I ended up doing. Only problem with this is that when
you view the powerpoint presentation in full screen mode (on the web page)
then the "home" button doesn't work - you have to "end show" to go back to
regular view, then click on the action button. my trial web presentation is
now posted at http://www.jrsweb.com/EU_IMPD.htm
Click to expand...

Odd. Here the home button works and takes me back to your home page but still in
fullscreen mode, and F11 won't break out of it (because it's in a frame, I suspect).
Seems that in full screen mode any click just moves you through the slides.
Makes sense I guess.
Click to expand...

That might not happen if you choose to omit navigation buttons in your Publish to Web
options (you'll have to supply your own navigation buttons in that case, but that's
simple enough)
Anyway you see around the full screen mode issue? Probably not, and maybe
it is not all that bad - but a bit kludgy with the button being there and
nothing you can do with it.
Click to expand...

Not using PPT, no. Modesty, if I had any, would forbid me to mention our PPT2HTML
add-in that gives you much more control over the html you get from PPT.
Free full functioning demo at: http://ppt2html.pptools.com
Click to expand...
 
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