frustrated, thought I figured it out. Please help!

[susanf via OfficeKB.com]

OK, here is the situation. I have recorded narration for each slide along
with animated clicks. Afterwards, I save the timings. However, I want the
viewer of the show to be able to advance to the next slide when they are
ready. In the process of recording narration and saving the timings, it will
also want to automatically advance to the next slide. If I go to slide
sorter view and delete all the timed slide transitions and put it on "when
clicked" it also erases all my timed animations within the slide as well.
How can I keep the timed animations that go along with my narration for each
slide, but still allow the viewer to advanced to the next slide manually?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Susan

 

[susanf via OfficeKB.com]

Here is a follow up question. If I can't split the two and it must run
automatically, how can the viewer pause the slide show to take notes, without
having to leave slide show view and then restart it again?

Thanks!

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Susan

To answer your second question first: pressing 's' or '+' pauses & restarts
the show.

Now for your original problem... How did you delete all the timed slide
animations? You should be able to just change 'automatically after' to 'on
mouse click' in the slide transition taskpane and click 'apply to all'. Does
that not work? I don't have much experience with recording narrations but I
don't see why it would delete animations when deleting slide transitions...
Oh and what version are you using?

Lucy

 

[John Wilson]

Hi Susanf

Can you try instead of deleting the slide transition auto time, increasing
it to a long time. The animations should stay timed and the slide transition
happen on click?
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[susanf via OfficeKB.com]

Hi Lucy and John, thanks for the suggestions. I figured out how to pause the
slide show, but when the viewer starts it up again, the recorded narration
starts over unfortunately. There is no way to pause mid narration.
Regarding the question, when I save the narration, it asks if I want to save
all my timings of the animations that go along with the narration.
Unfortunately, this included automatically transitioning to the next slide so
when I changed the slide transition to on mouse click, it also changed all
the animations during the slide as well. Haven't figured it out yet. Anyway,
I think I will just take John's suggestion and add time to the slide advance
at the end of the narration. That way, the view can just click on the action
button to advance before the slide does it automatically.

Susan

Hi Susanf

Can you try instead of deleting the slide transition auto time, increasing
it to a long time. The animations should stay timed and the slide transition
happen on click?

Here is a follow up question. If I can't split the two and it must run
automatically, how can the viewer pause the slide show to take notes, without

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