Assigning Hot Keys to Slides

[espencer756]

Is there any way to define Hot keys in a presentation to allow a one key
press to go to a certian Slide during a presentation.

Example. If I want to jump from "wherever" to Slide 1, I could just press
the 1 key and go directly there. 2 could be assigned to slide 10, 3 to 20
and so on.

I know how to set up hyperlinks to go from slide to slide, but I do not want
anything on the screen, and I want it to be as quick as pressing a single key.

I am fairly knowledgable about power point, and even VB Script if that is
what it takes.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi

One of the VBAers may be along later to help out but in the meantime, do you
know that you can just out in the slide number and hit enter to get there?
e.g. 1 + enter takes you to slide 1, 1 + 0 + enter takes you to slide 10,
etc

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[espencer756]

Yes, and that would work well, however, the user of the PPT will not know
what number slide they want to go to. This will be used more to advance from
"Chapter" to "Chapter".

 

[Austin Myers]

Yes, and that would work well, however, the user of the PPT will not know
what number slide they want to go to. This will be used more to advance
from
"Chapter" to "Chapter".

Then how are they going to know to push any key at all? Either they know
where they want to jump to or they don't, right? I mean the only difference
is they push press enter. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

As far as doing it in VBA, not very easily, in fact not easy at all.
PowerPoint already maps many of the keys (how else do you think pressing 1
and enter works) and trying to alter that is both a major headache and prone
to failure.

 

[espencer756]

Oh, I don't know, maybe I could use a little forethought and give directions

 

[espencer756]

Thank you Steve, I had not though about buying a third party plug-in, but
from what I can see, it looks like it will serve my purpose. I will download
the trial and see if it really works that way I want.

Thanks again.

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

You still have the possibility to put hyperlinks on slide. But it could
become much more complicated than pressing 1, 2 or else and Enter!

 

[John Wilson]

Another trick that might work for you.

Add Action buttons to the master and link them to the slides you need. Drag
them off slide so they are invisible (and unclickable!)

In show mode Tab > Enter will take you to the first link
Tab > Tab > Enter to the second link etc
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[Mitch]

Steve,

I've been trying to use the Shortcut Manager, but I'm getting all kinds of
errors (the dialog box refers to VBA) when trying to start PowerPoint after I
loaded the shortcut manager. Is there anyone that could give me support on
the Shortcut Manager?

Thanks!

Mitch

 

[Chirag]

Hi,

You can email me at officeone-at-mvps-dot-org regarding the issues that you
are facing with Shortcut Manager.

- Chirag

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