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I have a main presentation (PPT 2003) that has several buttons that each hyperlink to another PowerPoint presentation. I've put everything on a CD with the Viewer. When a user clicks on the button, it launches the proper hyperlinked presentation.

But here's a puzzling problem: If the user clicks quickly more than once (as happens often if the machine is a tad slow), two versions of the hyperlinked presentation launch, each running under the Viewer (I know this because I checked in Windows Task Manager). It's a problem because 1. the user can hear the background music of both presentations (one will be slightly out of sync with the other), 2. The presentation that is heard but not seen (running in the background) never closes, since the user never sees any screens from it and therefore can't click on any "end show" buttons. When the user eventually exits out of the visible presentation, the screen goes black and nothing but an "alt-tab" can bring the screen back, as the Viewer is busy playing a presentation that never shows on the screen. Can anyone please figure out a way to make it so quick multiple clicks of a hyperlink button will NOT launch multiple copies of the linked presentation in the viewer? Thank you very much.
 
The viewer is the main complication. It does not allow VBA macros to run,
thereby reducing the solutions to built-in options only. None address this
issue.

If it were not for the viewer, then you could write a simple VBA macro that
checks for other open presentations with the same name and does not run if
there is one.


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shelleyc said:
I have a main presentation (PPT 2003) that has several buttons that each
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hyperlink to another PowerPoint presentation. I've put everything on a CD
with the Viewer. When a user clicks on the button, it launches the proper
hyperlinked presentation.
But here's a puzzling problem: If the user clicks quickly more than once
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(as happens often if the machine is a tad slow), two versions of the
hyperlinked presentation launch, each running under the Viewer (I know this
because I checked in Windows Task Manager). It's a problem because 1. the
user can hear the background music of both presentations (one will be
slightly out of sync with the other), 2. The presentation that is heard but
not seen (running in the background) never closes, since the user never sees
any screens from it and therefore can't click on any "end show" buttons.
When the user eventually exits out of the visible presentation, the screen
goes black and nothing but an "alt-tab" can bring the screen back, as the
Viewer is busy playing a presentation that never shows on the screen. Can
anyone please figure out a way to make it so quick multiple clicks of a
hyperlink button will NOT launch multiple copies of the linked presentation
in the viewer? Thank you very much.
 
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