Make Changes to "Rehearse Timings" Settings

[John R. Baker]

I have a slide show with six or more cascading custom animations (with
embedded sound) on some of the slides. I used the "Slide Show > Rehearse
Timings" utility to set the slide progression. Everything seems to work OK.

But now, I want to edit one or two of the slides in the middle of the
presentation. Is there a way I can use "Slide Show > Rehearse Timings" to
edit one or two slides in the middle of the presentation, without having to
re-do timings for the entire presentation?

If I try to change the individual slides' timings manually, I can change the
total overall time for the slide, but not set the trigger points for the
progressive custom animations.

Alternatively, is there another way to accomplish my needs?

Thanks!

- John R. Baker

 

[Shyam Pillai]

The trigger points for the rehearse timings are stored in tags for a given
slide. You need to access them programatically since it is not available
from the UI.

 

[John R. Baker]

Thanks for your response.

Add that capability to my Wish List !

Can you point me to a tutorial or some other source that tells how do modify
the tags?

- John R. Baker

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for your response.

Add that capability to my Wish List !

Can you point me to a tutorial or some other source that tells how do modify
the tags?

Given a reference to a Shape or Slide or Presentation (we'll use a Shape as
example):

' Add a tag
oSh.Tags.Add "TagName", "TagValue"

' Get a tag
Debug.Print oSh.Tags("TagName")

And to list the tags on all the shapes on a given slide:

Sub ShowTags()

Dim x As Long
Dim oSh As Shape

For Each oSh In ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes
If oSh.Tags.Count > 0 Then
With oSh.Tags
For x = 1 To .Count
MsgBox .Name(x)
Next ' x
End With
End If
Next ' oSh

End Sub

 

[Shyam Pillai]

John,
You can download a trial version of my Toolbox which is fully functional
here: http://skp.mvps.org/toolbox. After you have it installed and loaded
follow these steps:
1. Move to the slide whose timings you wish to edit.
2. Select Toolbox | Developer | Slide Tag Info...
3. You should see the tag TIMING and it's value listed in the dialog.
4. Select it, click on Edit.
5. Now the value of the tag will appear below along with the name. The value
will appear as follows: |0.9|1.0|0.9
The numbers indicate the time interval between each animation build in
sequence. i.e the 1st animation will occure after 0.9 seconds, 2nd animation
will occur 1.0 sec after the 1st and so. Edit the values as you seem fit.
6. Click on Save.
7. Click on OK to update the narration timings to the slide.
8. Repeat for the next slide.
9. Save the presentation.

--
Regards,
Shyam Pillai

Toolbox: http://skp.mvps.org/toolbox

 

[John R. Baker]

Thanks, Shyam and Steve, for all of your help.

- John R. Baker