Slides should accessible to some but not others.

[Zynk]

I'm using PowerPoint 2003. I have a presentation that is going to two
different groups. With the exception of about 8 consecutive slides, the
presentation should be the same. Will the kiosk method help me to guide
individuals down the appropriate path. Is this the way to do it.

I'm thinking of including a slide that says if you're a click here, if
you're b click here. At the end of the difference, I'd have a continue
button that would like back to the next common slide.

Am I on the right track?

Would using hidden slides work better?

 

[David Marcovitz]

I'm using PowerPoint 2003. I have a presentation that is going to two
different groups. With the exception of about 8 consecutive slides, the
presentation should be the same. Will the kiosk method help me to guide
individuals down the appropriate path. Is this the way to do it.

I'm thinking of including a slide that says if you're a click here, if
you're b click here. At the end of the difference, I'd have a continue
button that would like back to the next common slide.

Am I on the right track?

Would using hidden slides work better?

Hidden slides won't help you here because you don't know in advance which
set of slides to hide. Your best bet is probably to use custom shows. Have
the A/B button choices on the first slide and have them hyperlink to the
appropriate custom show. Each custom show can have both "private" and common
slides. You can even put the slides in whatever order you want within a
custom show so if one group should see slide 15 then 16 and the other should
see 16 then 15, you can do that.

Kiosk mode might also be helpful as long as you have buttons and hyperlinks
for all the navigation.

--David
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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[John Wilson]

If you make the eight slides hidden and have a button on the previous slide
for "Group A" only that links to the first of the hidden slides you should
get what you want.

Click anywhere else ("Group B") and these slide will be left out, perhaps a
little suprizingly the next seven hidden slides WILL show up just with a
click if you link to the first one.
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[Cosmo]

I prefer to use Custom Shows for this situation. In your case, you would just
need 2 shows, but if you had more groups, it would be easy to scale up. Plus,
each show would not only have it's own subset of slides, but it can have it's
own order for those slides as well (something you can't do using justs hidden
slides)

 

[Cosmo]

Forgot to mention, that use of custom shows would also solve your question of
returning to the common slide - there is an option when hyperlinking to a
custom show to 'show and return' so that when that show ends (even if the
user escapes the show before the end), it will return automatically to the
slide which linked to the custom show.