There are two ways to do this, at least that I know of...
1) Create a separate presentation of the slides you want to loop using 'loop
until escape' in the set up. Then simply link the main presentation to it.
(see the link in Troy's post for details on how.) If you have set it up
correctly, the link, when activated will take you to a new presentation that
will loop until you end it. You can end it by simply pressing the escape
button on the keyboard, but this is sudden and unprofessional. or you can
add a hidden blank slide at the end with a gentle fade. Enter this slides
number and the presentation will fade to black. Then press the escape key
and the second (looping) presentation will end. If the slide that activated
the slink is also black, the transition will be smooth and seamless.
2) If you have an event capture add-in active, then you can capture the
slide change event and trigger a change back to the beginning slide. The
slides and animations would all have to be timed and not set to manual
activations within the slide looping range. This would all need to be done
using VBA, of course. This allows the loop to run within one single
presentation, but requires a lot more user savvy. When ever you wanted to
exit the loop, you would just type the slide number you wanted to exit to
and the presentation would send you there.
Neither of these options are off-the-shelf available in PowerPoint, so do
John a favor and write to the MS wish list if this is something you would
like to be available in PowerPoint 2004/5. (John is the MS rep whom is
looking for ideas on how to improve PowerPoint. You can just click on
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp and ask for what you
want you would like to see.
B
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