Powerpoint Start-up

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Dr. Bill Weber

I am a college professor and use Powerpoint to present my
key points in class. I have some fairly large powerpoint
files.

I'm trying to find a way where the Powerpoint presentation
would open at the slide that I stopped the previous class
session....rather than having to search by slide number of
key word.

Any suggestions. Thank you

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Dr. Bill Weber,

I do not know of a way of getting powerpoint to 'open' at a particular
slide. I don't think it remembers what page you were on, just like MS word
does not remember what page you were on.

I do know that you can start a slideshow from a particular slide by going to
that slide, and pressing the little slideshow "icon" button, bottom left. Or
during a slideshow you can enter a number from the keyboard e.g. 39 and
press Enter...then powerpoint will jump to that slide.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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Actually Word DOES remember what page you were on (sort of). When you open
Word, press SHIFT-F5 and it will take you to the last place you edited your
document.

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
You could write some VBA code that would store the slide last viewed in
either the registry or a simple data file and quickly reference it on the
first slide. This could be automated with event captures, or simply run
from Macros and Action Settings.


Ok, this may be too much; so, if you would like, I'll e-mail you a working
sample. Anyway, here goes ....

There are 3 parts to doing this with Macros and Action Settings.

1) Include these two small VBA routines (watch for NG text wrap):
'----------------------
Sub SavePoint()
Dim SldNum As Integer
SldNum = SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition
SaveSetting "PowerPoint", ActivePresentation.Name, "SlideSavePoint",
Str(SldNum)
End Sub
'----------------------
Sub GotoSavePoint()
Dim SldStr As String
SldStr = GetSetting("PowerPoint", ActivePresentation.Name,
"SlideSavePoint", "1")
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide Val(SldStr), msoTrue
End Sub
'----------------------

2) On Slide Master create a text box
Add text "Set Save Point"
Add Action Setting to run macro 'SavePoint' on click

3) On first slide in presentation add a text box
Add text 'Goto Save Point'
Add Action Setting to run macro 'GotoSavePoint' on click

Just click on the Set Save Point box at the end of your class. This will
store the current slide number for this presentation in the registry. On
the next class, re-open the presentation and start on slide 1. Click on the
Goto Save Point box and you will jump to the slide number stored. If no
slide number was stored, you will jump to slide number 1.


Does this mean I pass, Professor?
B

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Have you thought about possibly using the meeting minder feature? When you
are done with your presentation for the day, you could right click on the
screen, before you close the presentation of course, and choose meeting
minder. Then just type the slide number (provided that they are numbered)
and click OK. You may also want to add the date. Later when you want to
continue to present, choose tools>meeting minder and you can read your
notes. Then start the show and type in the slide number and hit the enter
key to jump to that slide and continue.
 
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