Advance Slide

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Judith Garman

I am creating power point presentations that advance
slides automatically and I may want to run through some
parts of the presentation several times. I am setting
the advance slide options in the slide transition. After
I have run through a presentation once the slides won't
advance. Whilst I can resolve this problem
programmatically I was hoping there would be a simple
answer?
 
After you have gone through the presentation once (with automatic
transitions), how do you get back to the beginning (when automatic slide
advancing stops working)?
 
Hi Troy

I have a button on the last slide that has an action
setting of hyperlink to first slide.

Thanks

Judith
 
Hello Judith,

Using a hyperlink (or manually typing a slide number/enter) will show the
slide at the end of its animation and sit statically (ie. does no animation
and does not auto advance). This will only affect the first slide, if you
advance (using computer keyboard, a remote, etc.) all the rest will go
through their animations and auto slide advancing.

The only solution is to go to SLIDE SHOW >> SET UP SHOW >> and check the
LOOP UNTIL ESC. This will automatically replay the presentation (keeping
automatic slide advances).
 
To link back to just a portion of a presentation, create a blank slide just
in front of the slide you want to link to. Give the slide a timing of "0"
seconds. Link to the blank slide. That will force entry into the target
slide to be at the beginning and animations and slide transitions will play.
 
Sonia that is GREAT! Had to create a quick test presentation to try the
blank/zero advance and it works great. Always learning!
 
It's an old trick that I too learned here. Now if only I could remember all
of the other things I've learned. <G>
 
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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

If it is important to you (or anyone else reading this message) that
PowerPoint include a method for choosing whether or not animations on
slide(s) replay when revisted without normal looping (perhaps a slide or
presentation option, or a Action Setting which can be chosen during slide
show), without having to resort to VBA or add-ins, don't forget to send
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Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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