Transitions for kiosk show

[Guest]

I'm creating a kiosk show, and have run into the same problem that others
have mentioned with getting the timing down so that each slide remains on the
screen for a short while before advancing to the next slide. The problem
with the "automatically after" setting on the Advance Slide is that this
seems to be the number of seconds after the previous slide starts, not after
it ends -- so, for example, if you set slide 1 to advance automatically after
8 seconds, when the slideshow plays, it will display the animation for slide
1, and then if the 8 seconds are up, immediately advance to slide 2. Or,
conversely, if the animation for slide 1 only took three seconds, the slide
remains on the screen for five seconds...maybe longer than you want.

Obviously, for a kiosk show what you want is uniform transitions. I can
think of two ways to do this:

1. Observe how long it takes each slide to display, add whatever margin you
want, and put that as the Automatically After time for the slide. This means
having to do this for each slide, and if you change anything on a slide, you
have to do it over.

2. My workaround, which is a bit of a kludge but which I prefer to method
1: add an invisible object (I used a box, no fill and no line), and animate
it a Very Slow speed. This gives you about four seconds added onto the end
of the slide.

My question is...is there a more elegant way to do this?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

If you're working with 2002 or above, you don't need to animate really
slowly. Just set the timing to be "After Previous" and set the delay to
whatever you want.
--David

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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.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Guest]

If you're working with 2002 or above, you don't need to animate really
slowly. Just set the timing to be "After Previous" and set the delay to
whatever you want.
--David

David, I don't see a delay option for the animation of the individual slide
items. The only place where I can see to set a delay is in the slide to
slide transition. I'm using 2003 btw.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

David, I don't see a delay option for the animation of the individual
slide items. The only place where I can see to set a delay is in the
slide to slide transition. I'm using 2003 btw.

Once you add an animation, look in the animation task pane, and you will
see that animation listed. When you hover the mouse over that animation,
you will see a triangle for a drop-down menu. Click on the triangle and
choose Timing from the drop-down menu. That is where you can add a delay.

--David

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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.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/