Animations and links

[Mac]

I've created a presentation where many of the pages are
linked to eachother. However, once a slide has been seen,
if it is then linked to from another page, none of the
animations occur and all the content is displayed at
once. I have 'cheated' by adding in empty slides before
the animated ones, which automatically advance after 0
seconds (so the effect is unnoticeable), but if I have
many slides, this is obviously going to be time consuming
and seems very longwinded. Anyone got any better ideas???

 

[Michael Koerner]

Right now that is about the only and best way to do it. Hopefully in upcoming
versions.

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I've created a presentation where many of the pages are
linked to eachother. However, once a slide has been seen,
if it is then linked to from another page, none of the
animations occur and all the content is displayed at
once. I have 'cheated' by adding in empty slides before
the animated ones, which automatically advance after 0
seconds (so the effect is unnoticeable), but if I have
many slides, this is obviously going to be time consuming
and seems very longwinded. Anyone got any better ideas???

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

The only additional suggestion I have is to use Copy and Paste to paste
your blank auto-advancing slide into place. This shoud be a lot faster
than inserting a new slide and setting it up each time.
--David

David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Kathy J]

I have a way that is a little quicker: Use a Custom Show.

Add one blank slide to the end of your presentation. Set up the transition
to go automatically after 0 seconds. Now, go to Slide Show--> Custom Show.
Create a new show. Add all the slides except the blank one to the custom
show. Now, select just the blank slide in the left column and scroll the
right column back to the top. Add the blank slide before each of your
animated slides. Save the custom show. Go to Slide Show--> Set Up Show. Set
the default show to your new custom show. When your run the presentation
from now on, the custom show will run and your animations should reset for
every slide.

Learn this and many other Custom Show tricks at one of my sessions at PPT
Live 2004. For information, see http://www.pptlive.com
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