Won't replay

[Mack Neff]

PowerPoint 2003
WindowsXP Pro

I have a ppt presentation with about twenty slides. Each slide has custom
animation for the various elements - text box entrance and exit, picture
entrance and exit, etc.

The first nine slides run by timed slide transition only - mouse click is
disabled.
On the ninth and following slides appear a set of duplicate "buttons" that
are used to navigate (Action Settings) the balance of the slide pages.

Slide one has a logo and a music file that begins playing immediately and is
set to play through 9 slides.
Slide two adds an audio file with narration that also plays through the
ninth slide.
On the ninth slide, automatic (timed) slide transitions end and all
additional navigation is by the navigation buttons.

Each of the following slides includes text, pictures and an audio/narration
file that lasts for that one slide only.
Each of the final slides includes a "Home" button that goes to Slide 1.

Problem: The show plays through from start to finish and one can navigate
to all pages with sound as it should. However, when click on navigation
button to go back to a previously viewed page, it views the page as complete
without animations and the narration file won't play.

Sometimes, when I click the "Home" button it will go back to the beginning
and play the music and narration, but other times it won't.

I must be missing one obvious setting, but can't find it.

Mack Neff

 

[Bill Foley]

When you return to a slide, you return to the "end" of the slide. The trick
is to create a blank slide in between the desired slides and set the slide
transition of that slide to "Automatic" at zero seconds so it automatically
goes to the next slide. Then set your navigation buttons to go to the blank
slide. They'll NEVER know how you did that!

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

That's something that can be termed as 'feature-by-design'. Here's a
workaround:

1. In your presentation, insert blank slides between all slides.

2. Give these blank slides a slide transition that automatically advances in
00:00 seconds.

3. Place all hyperlinks to the blank slide before the slide you actually
want to hyperlink.

Now when you view the slide show, all animations for a particular slide will
show.


--
Geetesh Bajaj, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
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[David M. Marcovitz]

No, you're not missing a setting. When you hyperlink to a slide you have
already seen, it goes to the end of the slide (i.e., after the animations
have been played). When you transition forward to a slide, it starts at
the beginning. The easiest fix for this problem is to insert a blank
slide right before any slide to which you want to hyperlink and set that
blank slide to automatically transition to the next slide after 0
seconds. All hyperlinks to the slide with the animation should point to
the blank slide. This is the trick to get the animation to reset.
--David

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

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

1. In your presentation, insert blank slides between all slides.

2. Give these blank slides a slide transition that automatically advances in
00:00 seconds.

3. Place all hyperlinks to the blank slide before the slide you actually
want to hyperlink.

Now when you view the slide show, all animations for a particular slide will
show.


--
Geetesh Bajaj, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
PowerPoint Notes: http://www.indezine.com/notes
Free Templates:
http://www.indezine.com/powerpoint/templates/freetemplates.html

Technical Specialist, PowerPoint Live
http://www.powerpointlive.com