Action button not reuseable?

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Paul Carson

Hello,
I'm trying to create a presentation where you click an action button, it
takes you to another page where an animation takes place and then eventually
you come back to the original page.

My problem is I would like for the action button to be able to be used
again, but it does not seem to be working that way in this case. After you
return to the first page the button is spent.

Does anyone know if there is way to make this work? Or is it just a function
of PPT?

I don't know if it makes a difference, but this is Mac 2001 PPT.

Thanks, Paul
 
Ok, nevermind. I figured that problem out.
But now I have another one:
When I click again the second time on the action button and it takes me to
the next page the animation doesn't work. eg: it just appears rather than
zooms in.
Anyone know a workaround for this problem?
 
The standard work-around for this is to have the link go to a blank slide (or slide with the same background) just before the slide with the animation. Then, set the blank slide to automatically advance to the next slide after 0 seconds
--Davi

David M. Marcovit
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint

----- Paul Carson wrote: ----

Ok, nevermind. I figured that problem out
But now I have another one
When I click again the second time on the action button and it takes me t
the next page the animation doesn't work. eg: it just appears rather tha
zooms in.
Anyone know a workaround for this problem
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint does not reset animations and slide timings (including
automatically playing inserted multimedia) on a previously viewed slide
when you jump to it from a later viewed slide. Of course, they are reset
when the presentation loops back to the beginning or you navigate
"naturally" to a slide from it's previous slide. Here is a KB article for
PowerPoint 2000 that describes a couple of workarounds (similar articles
exist for other versions of PowerPoint):

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=197701

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