Pausing and restarting PPT presentation w/audio

[saltandlight]

Using: PPT 2003 in a pretty lengthy presentation. Some slides contain
two separate audio clips (MP3), one with music to run for (X) number of
slides, the other with the narration for each particular slide.
Everything works fine if you simply let the presentation run
unassisted; however, there may be times during the presentation when it
will need to be paused (but that would be different in each
presentation). I know that pressing the "S" key will pause and restart
the presentation, but here's the problem: once a musical clip has
played for more than a few seconds, pressing "S" will only pause the
other elements--not the music. The music clips throughout the
presentation all vary, from a few seconds to a few minutes--but the
effect is always the same--after more than a few seconds of the clip
has played, the "S" has no effect on it. Any ideas?

 

[Austin Myers]

To be honest, I think you found a bug in PPT. I've played around with it a
bit to set up a pause trigger and that also fails. I suppose if it is
really critical you could write a small macro to do it.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

How does one go about alerting Microsoft to such a bug?

 

[Austin Myers]

Already done, I fired it off yesterday.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guurt]

Try this piece of macro for a rectangle (in this case 101) to switch between
'Show' (when paused) en 'Pause' when running...

*********
Sub PauseShowAToggle()
With SlideShowWindows(1)
If .View.State = ppSlideShowPaused Then
.Presentation.SlideMaster.Shapes("Rectangle 101").TextFrame _
.TextRange.Text = "Pauze"
.View.State = ppSlideShowRunning
Else
.Presentation.SlideMaster.Shapes("Rectangle 101").TextFrame _
.TextRange.Text = "Show"
.View.State = ppSlideShowPaused
End If
End With
End Sub
*********

Somebody wrote it for me 5 years ago and it still works on my 'to be paused
autorunning' presentation.

Guurt