How reset slides to restart from their first animation?

[Guest]

An interactive PowerPoint 2003 presentation I'm creating contains multiple
slides, each containing:

1) Multiple sequential animations (selecting one item at a time from a list
and displaying a text box specific for each list item). These animations are
all activated either "on click" or "with previous."

2) Hyperlink buttons to the previous and next slide---enabling the operator
to leave the slide at any point in the animation sequence (even if all
animations have not been run yet).

I would like for PowerPoint to restart from the first animation every time I
re-enter a slide that has previously displayed. What happens instead is that
PowerPoint remembers the animation where I left off and continues from
there---which is confusing if I am reentering a screen where all animations
previously ran because PowerPoint requires an Up-arrow or Page-up to back up
to the first animation in the slide's sequence of animations.

I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Guest]

Have a look at the dummy/blank slide method here (the quick way):
http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00598.htm

and custom show method here (if you have many slides):
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/custom shows.html
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Shawn Toh (tohlz)
Microsoft MVP PowerPoint

Site Updated: Sept 05, 2007
(Amazing PowerPoint animations, artworks, games here)
http://pptheaven.mvps.org
PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate

 

[CarniLvr79]

HA I have done it! I got it to work. I FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE IT Randomize AND RESET the Animations! TAKE THAT MICROSOFT !!!! err, or someone else I probably should take it out on? I feel better now - I have vented, I have been trying for about 4 hours scouring code examples and the freaking help file!!! Finally, it WORKS!!!

What I have done is made code to randomize the slide show for memorization flash cards for my plants Identification college class so that it will cycle through the Slides randomly, infinitely, won't see the same slide a second time until the entire slide list is run through, AND reset the animations of each slide!!!! IT IS POSSIBLE!!! WOO HOO! Hmm, now I need to study. Quiz is tomorrow and I have been dinking with this all day.



I am not going to post all the script I wrote, but here is the answer to this thread! It is in the .GotoClick (0)!!!! I had to put them in the right order, I had this code in place several times but kept throwing it out because it wasn't working - because I had them in the wrong order!!! This is the correct way to get-r-done!


Sub RandomizerByCarniLvr79 ()
Dim NxtSlide As Integer

NxtSlide = Int(Rnd * ActivePresentation.Slides.Count) + 1
With ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View
.GotoSlide NxtSlide
.GotoClick (0)
End With

'Please keep the Sub name so I can have credit for cracking this Power Point mystery, Thanks.
End Sub