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I am trying to build a slide show with a heirarichical structure: a master
index slide links to sub index slides, down to individual topics that are
usually only one slide each. I know that I can do the whole thing as a set of
custom slide shows, but that presents several problems: 1) transitions don't
work when a custom show ends; 2) worse yet, the screen flickers on show
endings, as the called slideshow switches asynchonously to the calling
slideshow; and 3) I am forced to manage hundreds of custom shows, which can't
be sorted or alphabetized (can they?).
I am willing to do extensive macro programming if it allows me to easily
manage the show, and gives pleasing visual effects. If only I had some way to
create an event at the END of a slide instead of at the BEGINNING. According
to the VBA Help file for PowerPoint, the SlideShowNextSlide event "occurs
immediately before the transition to the next slide." However, I have found
that it occurs AFTER the next slide has performed its transition, and so is
already visible. I would use the SlideShowNextBuild event and insert a final
build on a dummy shape after all actual animation builds are complete, but I
can't find any programmatic way to identify the last build, since I can find
no way to count the total number of builds on a slide (remember that each
line of text in a shape counts as a separate build).
I am currently using Powerpoint 2000, which does not support the
SlideShowNextClick event; 2002 and 2003 do, however. Would I be able to
identify the last build using SlideShowNextClick?
I'm really surprised that I can't find any way to specify which slide to go
to after the current slide. Am I missing something?
Thanks so much for your help!
index slide links to sub index slides, down to individual topics that are
usually only one slide each. I know that I can do the whole thing as a set of
custom slide shows, but that presents several problems: 1) transitions don't
work when a custom show ends; 2) worse yet, the screen flickers on show
endings, as the called slideshow switches asynchonously to the calling
slideshow; and 3) I am forced to manage hundreds of custom shows, which can't
be sorted or alphabetized (can they?).
I am willing to do extensive macro programming if it allows me to easily
manage the show, and gives pleasing visual effects. If only I had some way to
create an event at the END of a slide instead of at the BEGINNING. According
to the VBA Help file for PowerPoint, the SlideShowNextSlide event "occurs
immediately before the transition to the next slide." However, I have found
that it occurs AFTER the next slide has performed its transition, and so is
already visible. I would use the SlideShowNextBuild event and insert a final
build on a dummy shape after all actual animation builds are complete, but I
can't find any programmatic way to identify the last build, since I can find
no way to count the total number of builds on a slide (remember that each
line of text in a shape counts as a separate build).
I am currently using Powerpoint 2000, which does not support the
SlideShowNextClick event; 2002 and 2003 do, however. Would I be able to
identify the last build using SlideShowNextClick?
I'm really surprised that I can't find any way to specify which slide to go
to after the current slide. Am I missing something?
Thanks so much for your help!