User Run Options in Show

  • Thread starter Thread starter BoomerM3
  • Start date Start date
B

BoomerM3

I need to be able to provide some options to presenters who will be
using the new PPT Viewer with my presentation.

1. The presentation is developed with sound effects. Can I display a
setup screen giving the presenter the ability to turn off the sounds?

2. The presentation uses reveals (single lines of text fly in from the
left on mouse click). Can I display a setup screen giving the presenter
the ability to turn off the reveals (whole slide appears at one time)?

3. Other similar options for setup of the presentation.

I know I could generate multiple presentations - but that would get too
complex. I am willing to deal with VBA if that can solve the problem.

Has anyone done something like this? Is anything like this possible?
Thanks,

peter
 
Do you mean that you want them to do 1, 2, and 3 in the Viewer? The Viewer is
just that - - a Viewer. Editing or changing the way a presentation is run can't
be done in the Viewer. If you mean that these changes would be done in
PowerPoint and saved in a presentation that will later be viewed in the Viewer,
then the VBA gurus might have lots of ideas.
 
Thanks for responding.

Ideally, a VB program could change the show without having PowerPoint
on each machine (over 400 users are involved).

Alternatively, those who have PowerPoint could make those items (1,2,3)
happen by running a script, macro, program, or whatever in PowerPoint,
prior to running the show. The options would then be saved to disk.

I have to assume the users select a radio button and click OK - nothing
more.

peter
 
Without VBA, I don't think there is much that you can do. That means that
the options won't work with the Viewer. You could do something like:

Sub TurnOffAnimations()
ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.ShowWithAnimation = False
ActivePresentation.Saved = True
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Next
End Sub

But I'm not sure if it will work while you are in the show. I'm home now
using PowerPoint 98 on my Mac, and it doesn't work, but lots of things like
this don't work, so it might work in Windows versions of PowerPoint. this
changes the slide show's settings to not use the animation. On my Mac it
changes the setting, but it doesn't apply that change until the next time the
show is run. If this doesn't work, a more complicated procedure will be
necessary that actually changes each object with animation effects.

Is this the kind of thing you want?

--David

David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
Ideally, a VB program could change the show without having PowerPoint
on each machine (over 400 users are involved).
Click to expand...

VB/VBA might be able to assist in creating multiple versions of the show that
you could put on the CD and link from a main menu presentation that allows the
users to choose Sound/No Sound.

VB/VBA would be no help on the users' computers; the viewer doesn't support
VBA and doesn't offer any support to external vb programs that want to control
it.
I have to assume the users select a radio button and click OK - nothing
more.
Click to expand...

With a menu presentation as the "front end" they'd simply click a link
 
David said:
Without VBA, I don't think there is much that you can do. That means that
the options won't work with the Viewer. You could do something like:

Sub TurnOffAnimations()
ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.ShowWithAnimation = False
ActivePresentation.Saved = True
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Next
End Sub

But I'm not sure if it will work while you are in the show. I'm home now
using PowerPoint 98 on my Mac, and it doesn't work, but lots of things like
this don't work, so it might work in Windows versions of PowerPoint. this
changes the slide show's settings to not use the animation. On my Mac it
changes the setting, but it doesn't apply that change until the next time the
show is run. If this doesn't work, a more complicated procedure will be
necessary that actually changes each object with animation effects.

Is this the kind of thing you want?

--David

David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
Click to expand...

Yes, but it's a bit broad. I would like to change only the reveals -
possible?

And turning off sounds?

All this seems to be contained in Custom Animation. Is there a way to
read that (in VBA) and make changes based on if... then set...

peter
 
Unfortunately, I just tried this in 2002, and it didn't work. It changes
the setting just fine, but doesn't implement the change until the next
time you run the show. Oh well.

Steve's idea might be the best. You could use code to generate different
slide shows, and these slide shows could run with the viewer. You could
even make it one big show that has buttons on the first slide to link to
each version of the show. In this way, you would run the VBA, and the
end user doesn't need VBA (and thus can use the Viewer).
--David

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

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
 
Back
Top