go to specific slide in presenter view

[Guest]

I run slide shows using presenter view to display musical lyrics on a screen.
I frequently need to display slides out of sequence, for example, when the
band decides to spontaneously go back to the first verse. I would like to
just type the slide number and press Enter, but that doesn't seem to work in
presenter view. Is there a workaround besides scrolling through the
thumbnails and clicking the slide I want?

Thanks.

 

[Cowtoon]

By presenter view ... do you mean "slide show". If yes, right click, then
select "go to slide" ... and the slides will be listed.
If no (and are in the normal view), perhaps use the sorter view (bottom
left, middle view choice) ... then double click the slide you want and it
will fill the screen (to work view). Reselect sorter view ... you can go
back and forth this way.

I don't know if this helps, but maybe it'll give you some ideas to start
from.

I run slide shows using presenter view to display musical lyrics on a
screen.
I frequently need to display slides out of sequence, for example, when the
band decides to spontaneously go back to the first verse. I would like to
just type the slide number and press Enter, but that doesn't seem to work in
presenter view. Is there a workaround besides scrolling through the
thumbnails and clicking the slide I want?

Thanks.

 

[Karen]

Hi Diane,

I use PPT 2003.

When I have a smaller presentation without TOO many slides and I want
to jump around randomly in the slide show, I go to the Slide Master
view and on the template that applies to all the slides I want to
include in that "jumping around", I create a series of very tiny
"ACTION BUTTONS" with each one hyperlinked to a certain page in the
presentation. I save it, and then when I go into slide show view, each
of the slides has a little button on the bottom which allows me to go
from say page 3 to 6 to 4 and back again, no matter which of the pages
I'm on.

Even though it's a bit tedious to set this up in the master view, you
only have to do it once to the slide master. (These action buttons
don't work in normal view, only once you're actually in the slide show
itself).

If you didn't want the buttons to show up so clearly you could colour
them the same as your background and just have the numbers highlighted
a bit lighter so you could see them.

I'm not sure if this would work for you or if it would be practical in
your case, but it's helped me out when I've had similar situations.

Best of luck!

Karen

 

[Karen]

Oops...I forgot to add that I'm not sure this would work for you in
'Presenter view' and allow you to click directly on the slide or not.
I know that the control features are totally different when you're
using that mode.

Regardless, I'm hoping you can find a workaround!

Karen

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it.

 

[Guest]

Presenter view is "slide show" when you're using dual monitors. Apparently
keyboard shortcuts (except the arrow keys) don't work in presenter view.

Thanks for responding though.