Running Slide Shows

[Guest]

During a slide show, is it possible to import a graphic, place it on the
slide then import another and place it on the slide?

 

[Ute Simon]

During a slide show, is it possible to import a graphic, place it on the

slide then import another and place it on the slide?

No, that's not possible by design.

What are you trying to achieve? Wouldn't it be easier to import the graphics
in normal view, and apply an animation to them to make them visible during
the slide show?

How good is your knowledge in programming VBA makros? If it can be done at
all (never seen anyone trying it), you'll need a LOT of programming.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Guest]

What Ute said, and ...

Depending on what you want to do, it wouldn't take a LOT of VBA programming,
but it would take a little. I wrote a little macro for an animal shelter in
Texas that would automatically import a series of pictures, one on each
slide, of the animals that were up for adoption. Every day, they would take
pictures of all the animals and save the pictures. Then, they would spend
hours importing the pictures into PowerPoint. A few lines of code cut the
hours down to seconds. This was made easier by the fact that they knew in
advance the names of the pictures, and the pictures all had the same name
with sequential numbers.

In other words, it could be very little VBA, but if you have odd and strange
requirements for how it should work, it could get a little more complicated.

Of course, you might mean something totally different. If you just want the
pictures to show up on the slide while they have already been inserted into
PowerPoint, this can be done with animation, animation using triggers, or VBA
depending on the details of what you want to do.

--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the replies. I am teaching a roadside safety class for first
responders. During the slide show I have various diagrams of intersections
shown on the slide (jpgs which were scanned in). What I am trying to
accomplish is this: I want to have an image (jpg, etc.) of an ambulance,
fire truck, police car, etc. available to place onto the diagram and have
members of the class place it on the diagram (or tell me where to place it)
to demonstrate where they would park their apparatus when responding to
various accident/emergency scenes. Any ideas of how that could be
accomplished?

 

[Ute Simon]

Thank you for the replies. I am teaching a roadside safety class for

first
responders. During the slide show I have various diagrams of
intersections
shown on the slide (jpgs which were scanned in). What I am trying to
accomplish is this: I want to have an image (jpg, etc.) of an ambulance,
fire truck, police car, etc. available to place onto the diagram and have
members of the class place it on the diagram (or tell me where to place
it)
to demonstrate where they would park their apparatus when responding to
various accident/emergency scenes. Any ideas of how that could be
accomplished?

Ahhh, now I see what you are wanting to accomplish. So the problem is not
so much to import an image, but to move it during slide show mode. A member
of our (German) PowerPoint-User Team has developed a macro to do exactly
this. And since there was a question for a similar here yesterday, we are
currently working on an English translation of the sample file. I will post
a download address here tomorrow.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Ute, that's great news. I was wondering who Hans was. Now, I know he is
with you. I'm looking forward to seeing the add-in. This would be very
useful. I have a little proof-of-concept demo on my site that doesn't
allow dragging, but it allows you to click to move something:

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

It's trick #5 under the More Tricks section.

Alternatively, this might be doable without macros. Different locations
on the screen could be set to trigger an animation. The animations that
are triggered are different copies of the ambulance picture flying into
that particular location.

--David

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

 

[Ute Simon]

I will post a download address here tomorrow.
I don't know, whether you read the other posts regularly, so I'll point you
to the macro I mentioned:

Hans Werner Hofmann wrote: "Our Download-Site is ready to use
Drag&Drop example http://www.ppt-user.de/ostern.htm"

Kind regards,
Ute