Ending Custom Shows

[David M. Marcovitz]

I am trying to help someone with a custom show, and we are having a
problem. He links to a custom show and wants to set a button to return
to the main show. I advised him to set the link to the custom show to
"show and return" and the Action Setting of the return Button to "End
Show." This works perfectly on my system (PowerPoint 2002), but the end
show button ends the entire presentation (not just the show) on his
system (PowerPoint 2000). I also tried it on my Mac (PowerPoint X), and
the end show button ends the entire presentation there as well.

Is this a problem with PowerPoint 2000 and X, or should we be doing
something else? I searched for any earlier postings about this but could
not find them.

--David

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

 

[Sonia]

PowerPoint 2000 doesn't provide "show and return" for Custom Shows, so End Show
means "end it all". In PowerPoint 2000 the object could instead be linked to
the slide he wants to return to.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Linking to the slide he wants to return to messes up in other ways. That
was what he was originally doing, but when he does that, a click to
advance to the next slide takes him to the slide after the custom show,
not the next slide.
--David

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

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Also, it seems strange to me because Show and Return does seem to be an
option in PowerPoint X, but it has the same bad behavior. I guess I'll
have to ask about that in the Mac newsgroup.
--David

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

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

In addition to what SoniaSez, can you instead link out to an independent
presentation (ie, a different PPT/PPS) instead of to custom shows? Then an End
Show button would end the show linked TO, leaving the original slide you linked
from visible.

This won't, so far as I'm aware, be subject to any x-version glitchcraft.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Good idea. I'll suggest it.
--David

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