Drill Down - Then Return when Ready

[Guest]

Hi All,

I'd like to drill down to another more detailed slide then return when
ready.

Any suggestions as how to do this the best way?

Thanks,
Baz

 

[Guest]

I just did this with PP 2002.

Create a hyperlink on your "start" slide, link it to the more detailed
slide. On your more detailed slide, make another hyperlink to the original
slide. I used blank text boxes, and made the whole text box the link. When
you are in viewer mode the cursor turns into a hand when you go over the
hyperlinked area, so you know where to click. When you go into the hyperlink
dialogue box, you'll find that you can choose to link "to a place in this
document", which will then bring up a list of all the slides you have in the
presentation, then you can just click on the slide you want.

This is the way I did it (I found help had the details on how to make one
hyperlink, slide to slide, but not how to get back). There may be an easier
way.

HTH

Fiona Nelson

 

[Guest]

Hi Barry,

In pp 2002 (my version) when you are in the presentation view (either
through a .ppt show or through a .pps show) you can type in the slide number,
press enter and it will jump straight to it - if you're within the same show.
Then use the same technique to get back to the original slide.

Advice I have seen on this forum is to have a hard copy of the slide show
(file/send to/word/outline view will print all the titles and bullet points
to a word doc leaving the pictures behind) then use that to navigate around.
The heading numbers refer to the slide number.

Hope this helps.

Fiona

 

[Fiona Nelson]

Sorry - I didn't realise it was for a web presentation. I'm not sure what
is the best option to use for the web - powerpoint or some other software.
Apart from that - hyperlinks with "see more about xxx" as the on screen
dialogue and using the same sort of code to go to the "next" or "previous"
page might be the best option. Then you'd just have a "back" button,
similar to what most web browsers use.

Apart from that - maybe someone else can give you a better option. If you
re-post with the web page question, someone may answer more fully - people
may not read all the posts and so not see that you still need more
information.

Good luck.

Fiona

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

I haven't been following this thread, but if it is for the Web, VBA won't
work. VBA only works on the full version of PowerPoint (not in the Viewer
and not over the Web).
--David

--
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/

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can control my Power Point

Presentations better.
I'm a VB6 developer.
Would anything be available in vb6 to help me with these issues?

This has all gotten quite confused. Perhaps it'd be a good ideat at this point
to step back and explain exactly what you need to do and the environment you
need to do it in (on the web, locally, in a browser, in the viewer, in PPT
itself and so on)

 

[Kathy J]

I must be missing something.. Why not just do this with nested menus as was
suggested by Fiona? You can create a menu with the main topic buttons, each
of which is hyperlinked to the correct custom show or external file. The
file or show runs and when it finishes you return to the main menu. If you
need to take sidelines from individual slides, then you put buttons on those
slides with the individual links.
If you really want to get snazzy, you put the section navigation buttons
down one side or the other of the master and they show on every slide.

I guess what I am missing is why not do this with PPT's hyperlinking and
custom show abilities instead of trying to do this through code?

Now for Kathy's bias - If you are creating a web site, you are using the
wrong tool. If you are creating an informational series of slides that will
be delivered via the web, then your links and buttons should be
self-explanatory (in other words, the buttons should be labeled so well that
they can't be mistaken.) I know that you can deliver this kind of
information via the web, but I really don't recommend it.

Just my two cents.....

--
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

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the suggstion.

Its still the same question. Just need a better result.

Its also a logical progression in learning about Power Point and its
limitations.

Its no longer about basic Power Point features.
As in "Here is Power Point presentation on my summer vacation."
Including some pics and cool animations etc.

Its more about offering a bit more professional navigation than just
play, exit, forward, and previous slides.
As in "On the 30th of June we visited Carlsbad Caverns. Click here to
take the sub-tour of Carlsbad. You can return here whenever your
ready."
More of a pop-up / drill-down approach.

Now it could be that a better approach is to have a master slide which
contains a header index for all slides. Similar to a web page header
which indexes the other areas of a web site.

We've discussed VBA. But as proven VBA will not work in the PPB (power
point browser).

This is what I was talking about. Where does the browser come into the
picture?

This is what I meant when I asked you to describe the environment in which this
needs to run. There's a world of difference between running a presentation or
set of them on a local computer in PPT and running it on a web server, in a
browser, whatever.

We've already done the wheelspinning thing once. Let's not go there again. ;-)