Automatically Advance to Next Slide After Sound Plays

[James E Middleton]

My students have made slide shows with pictures from their summer holiday.

We did not use the PowerPoint narration feature.

Each slide has a .wav file for narration inserted as an object on the slide.

So a four slide show has four slides with four .wav files, one on each.

Is there a way to set up the show so it advances to the next slide when the
narration ends?

Since the length of the .wavs vary, there's no way to set the animation to
be the same between each slide.

Thanks...

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

Right-click the sound icon on each of the slides and select the Edit Sound
option - this will open a dialog box that shows you the length of the
narration.

Set the slide transition to automatically time to around 2 seconds more than
the narration length.

Hope this helps - or get back and we can look at some other solution.

 

[James E Middleton]

Thanks, I thought that as the way, but I have almost 200 slides to do, so
maybe the viewers will just have to click to advance to the next slide....

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Another way you can do make the slides advance automatically when the
narration is done is to add an animation to the end of every slide and then
set the slides to advance automatically.
1) Add a shape off the slid (in other words on the grey area around the
slide)
2) Give that object an animation - doesn't matter what
3) Set the animation to happen after previous
4) Copy the object.
5) Go to the next slide and paste it.
6) Bring up the transition task pane
7) Check the box for transition automatically and set the time to 00 seconds
8) Click the Apply to all button.

Now, when the music finishes, the animation will occur but no one will see
it. The transition will wait for all the animations to finish before it
goes, so it will happen after the animation you added.

Why do this instead of the other way? Because you have so many slides. It is
easier to paste an object on 400 slides than it is to hand change each of
the sound animations.

--
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Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
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[James E Middleton]

Perfect!

Great tip, I really appreciate it!

Another way you can do make the slides advance automatically when the
narration is done is to add an animation to the end of every slide and
then set the slides to advance automatically.
1) Add a shape off the slid (in other words on the grey area around the
slide)
2) Give that object an animation - doesn't matter what
3) Set the animation to happen after previous
4) Copy the object.
5) Go to the next slide and paste it.
6) Bring up the transition task pane
7) Check the box for transition automatically and set the time to 00
seconds
8) Click the Apply to all button.

Now, when the music finishes, the animation will occur but no one will see
it. The transition will wait for all the animations to finish before it
goes, so it will happen after the animation you added.

Why do this instead of the other way? Because you have so many slides. It
is easier to paste an object on 400 slides than it is to hand change each
of the sound animations.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro!
Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we
lived