How to start a batch slide show?

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Jeff S

I have a powerpoint file having more that 40 slides in it.
I would like to be able to run slide show peace by peace
and end it.

For example at first I would like to kick of the show for
slide number 1-5 then end it. Next I want to start the
show from slide 6-10 and then end it..

Anybody know how to do that?

Thanks a bunch.
 
I'm not sure I'm understanding you Jeff. You want the first 5 slides to
show and then blank screen. Presumably you'll talk for a bit, then go on to
the next section and pause to talk, right?

Why not just insert a black blank slide where you want to pause?

B
 
Hi,

What I actualy want to do is to start and end the slide
show but each time with a diffrent sets of slide numbers.
I am preparing a word document which is going to be huge
with lots of picture and I would like to put all the
pictures into a power point file. Then put a links into
the word document that each time I click on the link it
starts off slide show of slide number 1-5 then end it.
Next link starts off the show with slide number 6-12 then
end it etc.
 
I would break the presentation down into multiple presentations to suit the
linking requirements.
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But I have seen in help of Power Point you can have a
custome show that starts from a certain slide number and
end with another without going thru the whole slides. Who
it could be done as batch, is my question and problem. Do
you how I could start a slide show thru a batch command?
Clicking/openning a *.ppt just opens the file and does not
start the slide show. You know how to do that please?
 
No, I realize that's what you're asking, but I don't know how you would do
that. Custom shows are available from within PowerPoint in the presentation
they are defined in. You want to address and access them from outside, from
another application, and I don't know if that can be done. If it can, I
don't know how. That's why I explained how I would do it without the use of
custom shows.
 
It is not easy the path you have chosen, young one. Dark are the ways of
the Presenters ....


The solution you would need would need two parts.

Part 1: Smoke and mirrors --
In PowerPoint
- select any full slide
- hit ctl-A (select all slides)
- right click
- select hide (...trust me...)
(All of the slides in your presentation are now hidden)

- at the end of section 'A' (5 slides)
- insert blank black unhidden slide
- set auto transition to zero seconds
- copy this slide
- paste this slide (with formatting) at the end of each 5 slide section
- paste this also at the very end of the presentation
- save & close presentation

Part 2: Hyperlinking to the middle of a presentation --
In Word
- Insert Picture
- Right click
- select hyperlink
- click 'browse for file'
- find your PowerPoint file
- click at the end of the hyperlink text box
- type a space, the # sign, and the starting slide number
- repeat with other pictures


Net effect is this:
When a picture is clicked, the hyperlink starts the PowerPoint show (in
browser) on the designated slide. The slide is 'hidden', but that does not
matter, it shows when directly called. It will transition to the next slide
(using pg dwn) which is also hidden, and will continue to transition to the
next hidden slide until it encounters a non-hidden slide. When the
presentation encounters one of your blank black slides (which is
non-hidden), it will auto transition to the next non-hidden slide. Since
this is also a blank black auto transitioned slide, it will skip quickly to
the end of the show and stop.


This should do what you described.

B
 
Well thanks for the help. I followed your instruction and
I got almost 60 percent success with the following. These
could be due to the version of Power Point that I am
working on and that is 97!. Sorry it is the choice I did
not picked!

1: Show does not start in Browser but in explorer, which
is okay and I don't care.
2: Show does not end automaticly, which is okay and I can
live with that.
3: All my links start with the same slide number which is
slide number 1 and end with the same slide number first
Blank Black slide.

I really appreciate you help and paitence. If this is not
possible with PP 97 please let me know before I spend more
time on this..

Regards Jeff S.
 
I have not used PP 97 in a few years, so do not remember if linking to
slides works in that version. But just to check the obvious ...

In the hyperlink (In Word) it should look something like
c:\my documents\MyShow.PPT #7
There should not be a space between the # sign and the number.
There should be a space between the file and the # sign.

If this does not link to slide 7, please let me know.

B
 
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