Mouse Pointer Disappears

[Guest]

I'm building an electronic business card and using mouse-over macros to
hyperlink to various slides and then back to the main slide. If the user
spends too much time on any one of the hyperlinks (5+ seconds), the mouse
pointer disappears and takes quite a bit of mouse movement to get back.

The ShowMouse addin works but would need to be loaded for each person I
distribute the business card to - not desirable.

Is there some internal macro coding I could use that would keep the mouse
visible?

 

[Guest]

On slide one have an action button that runs this code. Provide no other way
of moving to the next slide.

Sub mousey()
With ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View
..Next
..PointerType = ppSlideShowPointerArrow
End With
End Sub
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Did that answer the question / help?
_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html

 

[Guest]

I should have also mentioned (I dont know how au fait you are with vba) that
if your clients have macro security set to high this code wont run and
therefore they'll be stuck on slide 1!! It also wont run if they use the
viewer
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Did that answer the question / help?
_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html

 

[Bill Foley]

If you are providing navigation buttons on every slide for your user, you
can go into "Slide Show", "Set up show" and click the "Browsed at a kiosk"
option. This should keep the mouse on screen.

 

[Guest]

John, Thanks. Yes I've done a bit of VBA in Access so the code looks familiar.

Further question - I have several buttons on slide 1, each going to a
different slide using mouseover. How would I distinguish slide 2, slide 3,
etc using your code?

Also, don't know what security setting my potential contacts would have.
Good point.

 

[Guest]

Bill, Thanks. Never used this funtionality but it works.