Holding place in presentation

[Guest]

While doing a presentation, I often have to go from slide view to opening
another piece of software not in powerpoint or show a movie on DVD from my
computer. When I return to my presentation, it always re-opens with slide 1.
How can I have it return to the place I left?
Thanks

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

You can do a lot of what you want to do with hyperlinks and action
settings. Just link to the other program. When the other program quits, you
should be back in PowerPoint where you left off. Alternatively, you can
hold down the Alt key and hit TAB to jump to any other open application.
Alt-TAB your way back to the presentation, and you should be right back
where you left off. The trick that should make these methods work for you
is that you never actually exit out of the show; you just temporarily
switch the focus to another application.
--David

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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/

 

[Bill Foley]

A couple of options come to mind:

1. Put an Action Button on your slide and set the Action Setting to open the
desired program. That way when you close it out you come back to PowerPoint
in Slide Show mode on the same slide.

2. Open the programs up before opening your presentation, go into Slide Show
mode, then hold the ALT key down and press TAB until you see the desired
program. Release both keys and you are switched to your new program.
Repeat to go back to your slide show.

 

[Austin Myers]

Instead of leaving PowerPoint, display the other applications with in it via
an OLE link or by inserting the app as an object. To play a DVD within
PowerPoint take a look at PFCMedia, it has a feature for this very thing.
You may download a free, fully functioning trial from www.pfcmedia.com

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

Annie, one way is to have your other software open/ready to go and then just
use the 'Alt-Tab' key combination to toggle to the other software. Use the
same keystrokes to return to your presentation.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

While doing a presentation, I often have to go from slide view to opening
another piece of software not in powerpoint or show a movie on DVD from my
computer. When I return to my presentation, it always re-opens with slide 1.
How can I have it return to the place I left?

I don't think there's any way to do exactly that, but if you leave the
presentation open while you perform the other task, it'll still be open and on
the right slide when you come back.

If you start the other piece of software before starting the presentation,
you'll be able to use Alt+TAB to switch to it and back quickly.