Refresh Animations & Go To Slide

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April

I've got a slide show I'm using to display information to
our employees in sort of a kiosk display. It has
hyperlinks to each of the slides. The hyperlinks work fine
the first time, but the next time you click on them, the
animations don't work. Is there a way to perhaps refresh
the animations each time the button is clicked?

Also, is there a way to tell the slideshow to go back to
slide one after 10 minutes of no activity?

Any help is MUCH appreciated.

April
 
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David M. Marcovitz

April,

For your first question, several people have suggested here that you
create a blank slide before the slide with the animation, and have this
slide set to automatically transition to the next slide after 0 seconds.

For you second question, I believe that Kiosk Mode does this. Go to the
Slide Show menu and choose Set Up Show. Click on the Browsed at a Kiosk
setting. If you do this, you have to be sure that all slides can be
reached by buttons or hyperlinks and all animations are automatically
timed (this disables the space bar, arrow keys, mouse clicks except on
links, etc. for going to the next slide).

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
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John Langhans [MSFT]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not reset animations and slide timings (including
automatically playing inserted multimedia) on a previously viewed slide
when you jump to it from a later viewed slide. Of course, they are reset
when the presentation loops back to the beginning or you navigate
"naturally" to a slide from it's previous slide. Here is a KB article for
PowerPoint 2000 that describes a couple of workarounds (similar articles
exist for other versions of PowerPoint):

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=197701

If it is important to you (or anyone else reading this message) that
PowerPoint include a method for choosing whether or not animations on
slide(s) replay when revisted without normal looping (perhaps a slide or
presentation option, or a Action Setting which can be chosen during slide
show), without having to resort to VBA or add-ins, don't forget to send
your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

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suggestions)

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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John Langhans [MSFT]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hi Echo,

This has been fixed in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
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Echo S

This has been fixed in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.
Click to expand...

I tested before I posted that, but I must have bumped the mouse at some
point, as the kiosk didn't reset. At any rate, I retested just now, and
you're absolutely correct -- this has been fixed and works properly in PPT
2003. Thanks for prompting me to retest and correcting my misinformation!

So let me rephrase --

In PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP), Kiosk Mode does not return to the start of the
presentation after 5 minutes of inactivity. This does work, though, in PPT
97, 2000, and 2003.
 
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David M. Marcovitz

Is there any way to turn this off? What if I want all the benefits of
Kiosk mode, but I don't want to be sent to the beginning after 5 minutes
of inactivity? And before John jumps in with his standard "That feature
is not currently supported..." messaage, I already submitted this to the
MSWish List, but now I'm thinking maybe someone knows a work-around
(besides the complex work-around I've done with VBA that stores a whole
bunch of state data so the "Click here to begin" button can jump back to
the place where you left off).
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
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David M. Marcovitz

That's great, but that would have to be installed on every machine,
correct? That is, it is not associated with the show, but with the
machine so if I send the presentation to someone else, they would have to
install ShowMouse or they would be sent back to the beginning. And I
won't even ask about Macs...
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
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Guest

Hi John

I checked the KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=19770
) you mentioned and copy/pasted the sample code into a VB module. I also changed the slide number after GoTo and assigned the macro to button I created; however, that hasn't worked

Do you know if something is missing? Is there another option for refreshing the animation besides creating a slide previous to the animated slide with 0:00-timing or a macro

Thanks for your attention.
 
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Steve Rindsberg

I checked the KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=197701
) you mentioned and copy/pasted the sample code into a VB module. I also changed the
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slide number after GoTo and assigned the macro to button I created; however, that
hasn't worked.

It's supposed to look like this:

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

Is that exactly what you have, with the exception of the different slide number
following GotoSlide ?

Try changing it to this for starters:

Sub ResetSlide()
' Let's see if the macro ever runs:
Msgbox ("So far, so good. At least we know the code's running.")
' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number.
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide 1, msoTrue
End Sub

When you click the button you assigned the macro to, do you see a messagebox?
 
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Guest

Steve,

Thanks for your tip, but it's still not working. I copied your code and assigned the macro to the button. I turn the slide show mode on, click the button and the message box doesn't appear.

I might be making a huge mistake. Any ideas?

Tks.
 
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Steve Rindsberg

Thanks for your tip, but it's still not working. I copied your code and assigned the
macro to the button. I turn the slide show mode on, click the button and the message box
doesn't appear.

That tells us something; it means that the macro's never even running.

Some things to check:

- Are you clicking the button in Slide Show view? That's the only place it will work. It
won't execute macros in normal/editing view.

- What are your macro security settings? Change it temporarily to Medium if it's set to
antyhing higher.

- The macro must be in the same presentation as the slide with the button on it.
 
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Guest

Steve

Thanks again for your help. The problem was that I'd forgotten an "End With" within the code that was blocking the code

Marcos
 
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Steve Rindsberg

Steve,

Thanks again for your help. The problem was that I'd forgotten an "End With" within the
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code that was blocking the code.

Yep, that'll do it.

A tip: always pick Debug, Compile [project name] before running the code.
It'll often catch this kind of glitch and will highlight the problem so you can fix it
right then and there.
 

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