Automatically Advance To a Certain Slide??

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JessiRight77

Hello. After my custom animations are done on several slides, I want
to automatically advance to a certain "menu" slide (NOT the next
slide).

Is there a trigger that I can put at the end of the customized
animations to go to a certain slide?

I would be grateful for any help!!

Jessi
 
If your slide comes from the menu, you could have the menu link to a
custom show containing the slide. If the link is set to Show and Return,
it should return to the menu when the slide is done. For more
information, check out Glenna's Dynamic PowerPoint tutorial at:

http://www.powerpointmagician.com/articles/dynamicppt.htm

--David

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

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
 
Thanks for your help. I read the tutorial with regard to custom
shows, but I must be doing something wrong... my slide does not return
to the menu.

Here is my navigation order:

MENU > Slide 1 (automatically return to MENU when done)
Slide 2 (automatically return to MENU when done)
Slide 3 (automatically return to MENU when done)

I created a new Custom Show with only Slide 1 in it. (I will also do a
custom show for slides 2 and 3 later).
I then placed an action button on the Menu that links to the Custom
Show, and I also clicked "Show and Return."

When I click the action button link, it does advance to Slide 1 and
begins the custom animations, but Slide 1 just sits there when it has
finished... it does not return to the menu.

Do you know what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!
 
You're almost there. Now you need to set a transition on slide 1 to
automatically advance after a certain number of seconds. Your best bet might
be to set this to 0 seconds and add an extra animation at the end of your
animation sequence. This can be for a shape that is not on the visible
portion of the slide. This shape can be animated to happen a few seconds
after the previous animation. The slide should jump back to the menu
immediately after this (unseen) animation is done.
--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
I appreciate your taking time for this. I am still confused.

While on Slide 1, I opened the "Slide Transitions" bar. Underneath the
"Advance Slide" option, I clicked the checkbox for "Automatically
After" 0:00 seconds.

I then opened "Custom Animations" and at the end of my list of custom
animations, I created an unseen animated shape to appear (after
previous) with a 2 second delay.

Now, in presentation mode, Slide 1 looped over and over... but did not
go back to the Menu.

So... I edited "Custom Shows" to add the Menu slide as the second slide
in the series (I did not originally include the Menu because I thought
selecting the "Show and Return" option on the menu's link would tell it
where to return.)

Now... Slide 1 DOES return to the menu, but the introductory custom
animations on the Menu (that include a lengthy sound file) are
repeated. I don't want the menu to run the sequence again when Slide 1
returns... I just want it to sit there, waiting for the user to select
another option (ie., Slide 2).

So sorry so slow!

Jessi
 
Unfortunately, I'm at home now on an old version of PowerPoint, so all this
stuff doesn't work quite the same, so I am trying to guide you from memory.
If I were in my office, I'd check it all out before I answered. Therefore,
some of the details might not be quite right. Hopefully, someone else will
correct me if I make a mistake.

I believe you have your show set to loop continuously. You want to go the
Slide Show menu, and choose Set Up Show and uncheck the box for Loop
Continuously for the Custom Show. You do not want your menu slide to be
included in the Custom show. That is just asking for trouble.

--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
The "loop continuously until ESC" feature is selected and greyed out.
I set up my show up to be "Browsed at a Kiosk" because I had so many
"branches leading off the main road" that I wanted to set up custom
navigation. I did not want the user to be able to advance the slide
by just clicking anywhere... I wanted to force him/her to use my set of
buttons. I am a novice to PowerPoint, so there was probably a better
way to do this, but this is the reason the "loop continuously" button
is greyed out.

The "work-around" I used to fix my problem with the "repeating
animations" when the user is returned to the Menu was to insert an
identical Menu (without all the animations) that immediately displays
after the animated Menu. I then have the users return to the
non-animated Menu.

Although this arrangement works fine now on my computer, it is
extremely important to me that this presentation work well on other
computers too. So, I tested your suggestion by changing the Setup
Show option to "Presented by a Speaker" (which removed the checkmark
beside the "Loop Continuously" option) and I then removed the Menu
slide from the Custom Show. You are right... each slide now jumps
back to the main menu perfectly! BUT.. now the user can advance the
slide by clicking on their screen with the mouse... how can I disable
their "clicking ability" without using the "Browsed at Kiosk" function?

Thanks!

Jessi
 
Jessi,

That's really annoying. Kiosk mode is what you want to limit the user's
navigation, but it seems to be screwing up the custom show. You can set your
slides to not advance on mouse click, but users will have other ways to move
around that Kiosk mode prevents. I'm hoping someone else is going to chime in
here with some good work-arounds for this problem. One that comes to mind is
to use separate slide shows. Instead of linking to a custom show, you should
be able to link to a totally separate file that automatically runs through
and then exits without looping. The drawback of this is that some people will
have "End with black slide" checked on their computers (and that is a setting
for a computer, not for a slide show), so it would pause at a black slide
before returning to the menu. I guess I'm fresh out of ideas right now. Maybe
TAJ's linking tutorial will give you some ideas (and maybe TAJ himself will
bail me out with a good answer):

http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
Well, I really appreciate your trying, though! I don't know what I
would do without the newsgroups.
I do see where I can uncheck the "advance on mouseclick" on the slide
transitions. I tried it, but just pressing the spacebar or rolling my
mousewheel gets around that limitation.

I will keep watching this thread in case someone else has a suggestion.

Thanks anyway!

Jessi
 
That's really annoying. Kiosk mode is what you want to limit the user's
navigation, but it seems to be screwing up the custom show. You can set your
slides to not advance on mouse click, but users will have other ways to move
around that Kiosk mode prevents. I'm hoping someone else is going to chime in
here with some good work-arounds for this problem. One that comes to mind is
to use separate slide shows. Instead of linking to a custom show, you should
be able to link to a totally separate file that automatically runs through
and then exits without looping. The drawback of this is that some people will
have "End with black slide" checked on their computers (and that is a setting
for a computer, not for a slide show), so it would pause at a black slide
before returning to the menu.
Click to expand...

Hm. If you set each of the slide transitions in the external show but don't set
one on the last slide, it shouldn't advance to the black slide. You could put a
"Click to continue" button on the last slide and have it an End Show action.

Would that get it?

I guess I'm fresh out of ideas right now. Maybe
 
What are the disadvantages of leaving it like it is right now (ie.,
with the menu included at the bottom of my custom show list)? In his
previous reply, Mr. Marcovitz felt that it would be "asking for
trouble." Are there known incompatibility issues? The process is
working fine on my computer, but I haven't tested it anywhere else yet
and this is an important presentation for me.

The three custom shows are in the middle of my presentation, so I'm not
sure what you guys mean by the "end with black slide." The third
custom show insisted on returning to the very first slide of the
presentation, so I fooled it by creating a fourth custom show that I do
not use. I'm afraid this is becoming a shaky house of cards... Ha!
Ha!

Thanks,
Jessi
 
First to answer Steve. Your idea works, except that it violates the premise
of the title "Automatically Advance." If that works for Jessi, it is fine. I
was stumped by the idea of doing this without a mouse click. It seems that
Microsoft REALLY had a kiosk in mind when they set up Kiosk mode, and they
weren't thinking of other applications or custom shows.

To address Jessi, I believe that you are going to have a problem if your
users keep going to your custom show and never return. I could be wrong about
this, but you might try clicking on the menu a bunch of times and returning
to the custom show. Do it as many times as you think your users might
possibly do it, and then do it some more. Eventually, something in PowerPoint
is going to overflow, I think, because it is trying to keep track of where to
return to, and it has to keep track of that for every time you enter the
custom show without returning. Maybe Steve has a more definitive answer about
this one.

--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
David M. said:
First to answer Steve. Your idea works, except that it violates the premise
of the title "Automatically Advance."
Click to expand...

Two working eyes. Yeah, I suppose I *could* read the title and the body of the
message. ;-) Oops.
 
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