"end show" question?

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Geoff Cox

Hello,

With PowerPoint 2003 Viewer - I have an action button with "End Show"
on the intro single slide presentation (which leads via menus to
various other presentations).

I run the CD and get the intro slide.

If I click on the "End Show" button it does bring me out of PowerPoint
Viewer - that's fine.

But!

If I move further into the menus and then back to the intro slide and
click the "End Show" button it does not take me out of the Viewer but
back to an earlier accessed menu.

Obviously "End of Show" does not mean what I think it should mean!

Is there a way of having a button at any point in a collection of
presentations such that I can break out of the Viewer?

Cheers

Geoff
 
When you come back to the intro slide, PowerPoint brings you back to a point
where all the events on that slide have taken place. the only place it will
allow you to go is either to the next slide or in your case an earlier
accessed menu. You can put a blank slide in front of you intro slide with
zero animations or timings and link back to it rather than the intro slide
and everything should work then. Pressing Esc will bring you out of the
viewer anytime. you don't need a button.

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| Hello,
|
| With PowerPoint 2003 Viewer - I have an action button with "End Show"
| on the intro single slide presentation (which leads via menus to
| various other presentations).
|
| I run the CD and get the intro slide.
|
| If I click on the "End Show" button it does bring me out of PowerPoint
| Viewer - that's fine.
|
| But!
|
| If I move further into the menus and then back to the intro slide and
| click the "End Show" button it does not take me out of the Viewer but
| back to an earlier accessed menu.
|
| Obviously "End of Show" does not mean what I think it should mean!
|
| Is there a way of having a button at any point in a collection of
| presentations such that I can break out of the Viewer?
|
| Cheers
|
| Geoff
 
When you come back to the intro slide, PowerPoint brings you back to a point
where all the events on that slide have taken place. the only place it will
allow you to go is either to the next slide or in your case an earlier
accessed menu. You can put a blank slide in front of you intro slide with
zero animations or timings and link back to it rather than the intro slide
and everything should work then. Pressing Esc will bring you out of the
viewer anytime. you don't need a button.
Click to expand...

Michael,

Do you mean a blank slide in front of the slide already in the intro
presentation?

I have added one and linked the first menu presentation to the blank
sldie of the intro presentation, but when using the Viewer and having
moved to the blank slide, escape does not get me back to the desktop,
but to the menu linked to from the intro presentation.

Am I missing something?

Cheers

Geoff
 
If you already have a blank slide in the Intro presentation then do not add
another. When you push Esc, it will close the current presentation and looks
like it returns you to the calling presentation. If your down two levels,
than your going to have to push it twice.

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| On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:58:33 -0400, "Michael Koerner"
|
| >When you come back to the intro slide, PowerPoint brings you back to a
point
| >where all the events on that slide have taken place. the only place it
will
| >allow you to go is either to the next slide or in your case an earlier
| >accessed menu. You can put a blank slide in front of you intro slide with
| >zero animations or timings and link back to it rather than the intro
slide
| >and everything should work then. Pressing Esc will bring you out of the
| >viewer anytime. you don't need a button.
|
| Michael,
|
| Do you mean a blank slide in front of the slide already in the intro
| presentation?
|
| I have added one and linked the first menu presentation to the blank
| sldie of the intro presentation, but when using the Viewer and having
| moved to the blank slide, escape does not get me back to the desktop,
| but to the menu linked to from the intro presentation.
|
| Am I missing something?
|
| Cheers
|
| Geoff
|
 
If you already have a blank slide in the Intro presentation then do not add
another. When you push Esc, it will close the current presentation and looks
like it returns you to the calling presentation. If your down two levels,
than your going to have to push it twice.
Click to expand...

Michael,

Yes, I have found that the more I have moved into the series of menus
and presentations the greater the number of escape presses that are
needed to quit the Viewer, once I have returned to the first slide.

This is a real pain! Isn't there / shouldn't there be a 1 stop way (a
key combination) of getting out of the Viewer and gaining the desktop,
no matter where you are in the presentations?

Cheers

Geoff
 
I'm sure that it could be done with VBA. But, the Viewer does not recognize
that either.

Have you tried Alt+F4 during your multi level slideshow to see if that
brings you completely out? I realize that this allows you to jump between
open programs. But, if you do not have anything open other than the viewer
it should just dump you to the desktop. It does in a single level
presentation.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


| On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:15:44 -0400, "Michael Koerner"
|
| >If you already have a blank slide in the Intro presentation then do not
add
| >another. When you push Esc, it will close the current presentation and
looks
| >like it returns you to the calling presentation. If your down two levels,
| >than your going to have to push it twice.
|
| Michael,
|
| Yes, I have found that the more I have moved into the series of menus
| and presentations the greater the number of escape presses that are
| needed to quit the Viewer, once I have returned to the first slide.
|
| This is a real pain! Isn't there / shouldn't there be a 1 stop way (a
| key combination) of getting out of the Viewer and gaining the desktop,
| no matter where you are in the presentations?
|
| Cheers
|
| Geoff
|
 
I'm sure that it could be done with VBA. But, the Viewer does not recognize
that either.

Have you tried Alt+F4 during your multi level slideshow to see if that
Click to expand...

Michael,

Alt F4 seems to act in the same way as the Escape key ... moving
through the various slides before comming to the desktop.

Cheers

Geoff
 
I am really sorry that I could not offer a solution, there should be one.

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| On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:48:46 -0400, "Michael Koerner"
|
| >I'm sure that it could be done with VBA. But, the Viewer does not
recognize
| >that either.
| >
| >Have you tried Alt+F4 during your multi level slideshow to see if that
|
| Michael,
|
| Alt F4 seems to act in the same way as the Escape key ... moving
| through the various slides before comming to the desktop.
|
| Cheers
|
| Geoff
 
I am really sorry that I could not offer a solution, there should be one.
Click to expand...

Should be, but honestly, I don't think there is. Esc/End Show both end the
current show, no others. If there was a previous show open, it drops you back
into that, in whatever state it was in when you last saw it.

Geoff, I think if you make the navigation path clear enough to your users,
they'll get it. One thing that helps is to include "breadcrumbs" in the show.

Main presentation, click a link to go to presentation A

At the top of A: Menu --> Presentation A

Suppose you click a link to take you to Presentation B ... at the top of every
slide in it:

Menu --> Presentation A --> Presentation B

and so on, so the user always knows where they are in the general scheme of
things.
 
Should be, but honestly, I don't think there is. Esc/End Show both end the
current show, no others. If there was a previous show open, it drops you back
into that, in whatever state it was in when you last saw it.
Click to expand...

Steve,

Perhaps there is a way but its a secret?! Can you imagine MS
developers pressing mutlile escapes when testing PowerPoint?

Without paying £200 per incident I don't seem to have a way to pass
this question to the developers - am I wrong?

Cheers

Geoff
 
Steve,

Perhaps there is a way but its a secret?!
Click to expand...

Not that I'm aware of. But of course if I were privy to highly secret
information, I might be required to say that. Of course, I'm not, but then I'd
say that too. Sounds a bit too Le Carre doesn't it? ;-)
Can you imagine MS
developers pressing mutlile escapes when testing PowerPoint?

Without paying £200 per incident I don't seem to have a way to pass
this question to the developers - am I wrong?
Click to expand...

If you enter it as a suggestion (if you use the web version of this newsgroup),
someone at MS will tabulate it along with other feature requests and suggestions.

Pay-per-play incidents would be a waste of your money in this case. They're
intended for getting help with software usage or bugs. PowerPoint in this case is
behaving as it was designed to, so the support people won't be able to offer much
help, I'd think.
 
You might want to try to use CloseAllSlideShows.exe from
http://officeone.mvps.org/powerviewer/CloseAllSlideShows.exe. It closes all
running slide shows. From a shape on the slide or slide master, hyperlink to
run this applet. Do not "Run program" it - the free viewer doesn't like
running programs.

When you click this shape, the viewer will give you a warning box. OK it and
all slide shows will close. So, the only annoyance now remains is this
warning box and hence need to decide whether you can live with this dialog
box or the current situation.

- Chirag

OfficeOne Animations - Add over 50 animation effects to PowerPoint
http://officeone.mvps.org/anims/anims.html
 
If you enter it as a suggestion (if you use the web version of this newsgroup),
someone at MS will tabulate it along with other feature requests and suggestions.
Click to expand...

Thanks Steve - will give it a try.

Cheers

Geoff
 
You might want to try to use CloseAllSlideShows.exe from
http://officeone.mvps.org/powerviewer/CloseAllSlideShows.exe. It closes all
running slide shows. From a shape on the slide or slide master, hyperlink to
run this applet. Do not "Run program" it - the free viewer doesn't like
running programs.

When you click this shape, the viewer will give you a warning box. OK it and
all slide shows will close. So, the only annoyance now remains is this
warning box and hence need to decide whether you can live with this dialog
box or the current situation.
Click to expand...

Almost brilliant! Thanks for the idea.

In fact I get 2 warning messages, "may contain viruses" and also
"unknown publisher".

Anything that can be done about these warnings?

Cheers

Geoff
 
Geoff Cox said:
Almost brilliant! Thanks for the idea.

In fact I get 2 warning messages, "may contain viruses" and also
"unknown publisher".

Anything that can be done about these warnings?
Click to expand...

I think you can get rid of the second warning on "unknown publisher" through
these:
1. After downloading the CloseAllSlideShows.exe file, right click the file.
2. Select "Properties" menu item.
3. In the "General" tab, click the "Unblock" button.
4. Click OK button.

- Chirag

OfficeOne Animations - Add over 50 animation effects to PowerPoint
http://officeone.mvps.org/anims/anims.html
 
I think you can get rid of the second warning on "unknown publisher" through
these:
1. After downloading the CloseAllSlideShows.exe file, right click the file.
2. Select "Properties" menu item.
3. In the "General" tab, click the "Unblock" button.
4. Click OK button.
Click to expand...

Chirag,

That does the trick! How about the one about possible virus?!

Cheers

Geoff
 

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