Controlling presentations

[Terry Irwin]

Hope everyone is having a good holiday.

I would like to ask for any experiences of using third
party software to control presentations. I often find
myself putting up to ten presentations on a disk and I
need to be able to organise them and use the software to
tee up the first slide for the next presenter. I believe
that there is such software out there, but know nothing
about it.

Any thoughts?

Terry

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Perhaps the easiest method would be to create an Agenda presentation that
has links to all presentations on the disk labelled
"Presentation 1 - description"
"Presentation 2 - description"
etc.
Set the Agenda presentation to autorun when the disk is inserted.

Linking to other presentations:
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtutorials.htm
Autorun info: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

--
Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
troy at tlc creative dot com
www dot tlccreative dot com
==================================
A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
==================================

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Terry,

What Troy said.... but also..

Tutorial on creating a menu to start other presentations
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointmenu.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com

 

[Terry Irwin]

Sorry, didn't explain myself well enough. I am aware of
using a master presentation or slide to hyperlink to
others, but that doesn't let me preview that slide unless
it is next. I want to have total control of what I call
next, no matter what order I run the presentations, and to
preview them.

I believe some churches use this sort of system.

Terry
www.perfectmedicalpresentations.com

-----Original Message-----
Terry,

What Troy said.... but also..

Tutorial on creating a menu to start other presentations
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointmenu.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com

presentation that has links to all presentations on the
disk

http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtutorials.ht
m

wrote in message [email protected]...

 

[Chirag]

You might want to look at SundayStar add-in at
http://officeone.mvps.org/sundaystar/sundaystar.html. From the description
you have provided, it might do the job.

- Chirag

OfficeOne Animations - Add over 50 animation effects to PowerPoint
http://officeone.mvps.org/anims/anims.html

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Sorry for going down the wrong route, but you said the presentation are sent
out on a disk. This means you need a self contained/CD based solution. Most
churches will use a database driven software module like SongShow Plus
(http://www.songshowplus.com/). But this is a separate application installed
on the output computer. It will give you total freedom to adjust
presentation on the fly, but it is not a distributable solution...

--
Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
troy at tlc creative dot com
www dot tlccreative dot com
==================================
A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
==================================

 

[Terry Irwin]

That is exactly the sort of thing that I was looking for.
Obviously ShowSong is specifically for use in church. Is
there a similar program for more general use that control
presentations you have put together?

Terry

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Terry,

Database driven presentations are far from my expertise. Search at
www.indezine.com as Geetesh has a good listing of most PPT add-ins and
supporting software companies. Also repost your question on the newsgroup
with something like "Looking to control PPT content through database
program, any suggestions" and you should get some feedback.

Best of luck,

Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
troy at tlc creative dot com
www dot tlccreative dot com
==================================
A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
==================================