Automatically advance from a slide to another file/slide

[Marianne]

hi,
I have hyperlinks in file 1/slide 6 to file 2.

When the last slide in file 2 is shown I want file
1/slide 6 to be shown again. Without any action
button/hyperlink, just a regular advance click (mouse or
the enter tab).

Can this be done? Any macro needed?

Or is it better to have all slides in one presentation
and set up "Custom show"? This needs to be fool proof,
our sales guys will use it... =)

Thanks for a quick reply.
Marianne

 

[Kathy J]

Personally, I would use the Custom Show feature to do this, but I know that
there are times when that isn't possible. So, here's how I solve this
problem when I can't use a custom show, but have to have the slides in a
separate file...
1) Open file2 and go to the last slide
2) Place a box over the entire slide and set it to have no line and a 98%
transparent fill - make sure that the box is in front of everything else
(Right click, Order--> Bring to Front)
3) Right click the box and select Action Setting
4) On the Mouse Over tab, select Hyperlink and set it to end show (I do this
instead of click so that the transition is seamless. If you want them to
click, then set the hyperlink on the Mouse Click tab.)
5) Do Slide Show--> Custom Animation (or however you prefer to bring it up)
6) Select the box you just created and give it an entrance animation
7) Move the animation to the bottom of the list
8) Right click the animation and select "Timing"
9) Set the animation to happen After Previous and set the delay to a number
long enough for the sales person to finish the slide

If you set it to mouse over, the box will enter after everything else is
done and the slide show will exit returning you to the calling slide. If you
set it to mouse click, the same thing will happen when they click the screen
ANYWHERE.

The way I describe it above is for PPT 2002 or later. If you are using an
earlier version, let us know if you need more help.
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