I can only take so much! Same, same with hyperlinks and builds.

[Mike M.]

PPT 2002. I have run afoul of the infamous reset builds problem when
jumping around in a presentations. I have a presentation that runs in Kiosk
mode. I have several Action Buttons on slide 1. These are hyperlinked to
specific slides. Each of these slides in turn is "associated" to more
slides. One of my group of slides I use Action Buttons to navigate; Next,
Prev, Home. The other has slides that advance automatically after a few
seconds except the last slide that has a home button. As I found out the
first time I press the button to view my automatic slides everything is
fine. On subsequent presses of the button the slide sits there staring at
me like I am a dummy (not unwarranted I might add). After googling and
redaing umpteen posts and M.S. workarounds I know this has been an issue for
awhile. The suggested workaround is to make a macro and have a button
execute it. I did this and it works. However, I don't think my customers
are going to be able to do that. They can probably figure out the Hyperlink
to slide but I don't expect them to program in VBA. Regardless, this macro
works:

Sub ResetBeaches()
' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number.
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide 4, msoTrue
End Sub

Now I see in the VBA editor that for each slide and button on the slide I
have there is a PPT object with code as follows. I added the msoTrue to it
but it doesn't work. Anybody care to venture a guess as to why the one
works and the other doesn't?

Private Sub cmdBeach_Click()
With SlideShowWindows(1).View
.GotoSlide 4, msoTrue
End With
End Sub

Has anyone found some VBA or other method to reset ALL builds on ALL slides
that I could do each time a button is pressed?

TIA

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Shyam has a code snippet here:
http://www.mvps.org/skp/ppt00030.htm#6

You could also use the blank slide trick:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00598.htm

Also, it sounds like you should set up your presentation with custom shows
with the show & return box checked and use an action button linked to "end
show" instead of a home button. I think you'll get a cleaner result. See
Taj's tutorial on Interactive menus at:
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointmenu.htm (method one) and an
example of "nested custom shows" can be downloaded from:
http://www.powerpointmagician.com/downloads.htm (Fun Menus).

Hope this helps,
Glenna

 

[Mike M.]

Thanks Glenna. I have read some of those pages. My problem is that my
customers build their own presentations and then I programmatically combine
one to N presentations into a single pres and sent it to a kiosk device.
Combining into a single pres breaks some types of links which I have to fix
up. I'll study more about the custom shows.