jumping between presentations with hyperlinks

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Steve

I have a situation where there is to be a "main" presentation, and a series
of "auxiliary" presentations that one can hyperlink to. Each presentation
is a separate file. I can set up hyperlinks to jump to the aux files, but
what I cannot figure is, after cueing past the last frame of an aux file,
how to return to a cretain point in the main presentation, without having to
click on a button.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Steve
 
What certain point? If you want to return to the same place you clicked
in the main presentation, it should do that automatically as long as the
auxliary presentation is not open before you click on the link to it in
the main presentation. If you want to return to some other point, you
could use VBA in your main presentation to first jump to that other point
and then jump to the auxiliary file. That way when your auxiliary file
ends, you will be back at the main presentation at the right place.
--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/
 
By George, you're right!
I had my auxiliary show set to "end on black slide". Even with this, if I
took the time to cue it AGAIN after the black slide appears, it jumped back
to the main presentation, to the spot I left from. Of course, unchecking
the "end in black slide" button made it all better...

So then, if I wanted to return from the aux file to a point in the main file
other than where I originally left from, I would need to use VBA?

Steve
 
I think so, but someone else might have a tricky solution that doesn't
involve VBA. PowerPoint without VBA only allows a button to link to one
place, so you use up your one link by going to the other presentation.
Because you are coming back without clicking another button, you don't get
another link so you're stuck coming back to the same place.
--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/
 
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