powerpoint slide advance problem

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I have a client who is using power point 03 for operatic
supertitles. (english titles projected over the stage).

Occasionally the slides will start mysteriously advancing
on their own until the escape button is hit. Any ideas
what could be causing this?

The computer is a month old dell, I'm not sure what updates
is has. I don't have access to the machine.

Thanks,

--greg
 
Hm. I'd check a couple of things.

1. Are any of the slide transitions set to "advance automatically"?

2. Did your client use animation schemes when they created the presentation?
If so, which scheme? Some of the animation schemes include slide
transitions. I'm not sure that those have any timing settings, but it's
possible that they do.

3. Make sure the system has updated mouse drivers.

4. Try disabling the touchpad/eraser-mouse-thingy on the computer (assuming
it's a laptop).
 
The first thing to do is check whether it's set to advance slides manually
(if that's what you want), under slide how, set up show.
 
I have a client who is using power point 03 for operatic
supertitles. (english titles projected over the stage).

Occasionally the slides will start mysteriously advancing
on their own until the escape button is hit. Any ideas
what could be causing this?
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Friend falls asleep, head droops, nose presses the space bar?

Is he using a wireless mouse or other wireless device of any kind?

The computer is a month old dell, I'm not sure what updates
is has. I don't have access to the machine.

Thanks,

--greg
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Greg

Do the slides always start advancing on their own at the same place in
the show, or is it random? If its at the same place every time, its
possible that the advance after x time has been somehow selected under
the transition or animation menus, as has been suggested. If it is
random, then I'd look into hardware and driver issues. In addition to
the suggestions already offered, could it be a problem with the
keyboard, such that if pressed in "just the right manor" key bounce is
getting interpretted as multiple advances? In operating Surtitles for
the Canadian Opera Company for over 12 years I haven't seen such a
problem. We never use a mouse, and there never seem to be problems
with the keyboard. At home however, sometimes when reading e-mails,
the page will start scrolling madly, as if my finger is stuck on the
mouse button, when trying to do a single page down click. Usually I
have to click again to get it to stop. Mildly annoying, but doesn't
happen often enough to make me figure out what is causing it

Villem Teder
Toronto
(will be using the PPT3 viewer for tonight's show so that we can get
nice looking slow fades for Lucia)
 
-----Original Message-----
I have a client who is using power point 03 for operatic
supertitles. (english titles projected over the stage).

Occasionally the slides will start mysteriously advancing
on their own until the escape button is hit. Any ideas
what could be causing this?

The computer is a month old dell, I'm not sure what updates
is has. I don't have access to the machine.

Thanks,

--greg
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Thanks for all of your responses, we'll try updating the
drivers. The operator is supposed to be using the keyboard
(which I think they are). The advance problem happens
randomly, not at the same point. Strangly it has only
happened with one of the operators, the other op hasn't
experienced the problem. (she might be one of these people
that aren't windows compatable)
I'm getting the feeling that it may have something to do
with the KVM extender between the booth and the computer in
the room next door.

We are updating XP and PPT to the latest versions today (we
now have a internet connection in the room, though we'll
disconnect the computer from it once updated).

Thanks again for your help.

--greg
 
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