preventing advancing slides

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I'm an educator and use PPT with students who have severe and profound disabilities. I can set up a presentation and connect a switch (as the enter/left mouse button) for the student to press to advance the slides independently. Many times, the student will incorrectly hold down the button or press it several times and the slides start advancing too quickly. I want the student to press the switch/left mouse button and the slide to play without advancing until the current slide is finished. After the slide finishes, then the student will press the switch again and then I want the presentation to advance to the next slide only and stay there until the audio/video is completed. Is there a way to do this

Jen
 
Sure is. Click the "Slide Show" menu and select "Browsed at a KIOSK". Next
thing is to put navigation buttons on each slide. If you really want to
control the entire show, have the buttons animate as the last thing on the
slide. There are preset "action buttons" for Next and Previous under the
"Autoshapes" icon on the Drawing toolbar. Keep in mind that animations MUST
be set to animate automatically with whatever timing you want because the
purpose of the KIOSK mode is to take away the ability to just click a mouse
to move on. Got to click on a button provided (by you).

Holler back if you need further assistance.

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
www.pttinc.com
Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
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Jen said:
Hello,

I'm an educator and use PPT with students who have severe and profound
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disabilities. I can set up a presentation and connect a switch (as the
enter/left mouse button) for the student to press to advance the slides
independently. Many times, the student will incorrectly hold down the
button or press it several times and the slides start advancing too quickly.
I want the student to press the switch/left mouse button and the slide to
play without advancing until the current slide is finished. After the slide
finishes, then the student will press the switch again and then I want the
presentation to advance to the next slide only and stay there until the
audio/video is completed. Is there a way to do this?
 
Forgot a great link for just this topic:

http://www.powerpointmagician.com/access/accessppt.htm

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
www.pttinc.com
Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
"Success, something you measure when you are through succeeding."

Jen said:
Hello,

I'm an educator and use PPT with students who have severe and profound
Click to expand...
disabilities. I can set up a presentation and connect a switch (as the
enter/left mouse button) for the student to press to advance the slides
independently. Many times, the student will incorrectly hold down the
button or press it several times and the slides start advancing too quickly.
I want the student to press the switch/left mouse button and the slide to
play without advancing until the current slide is finished. After the slide
finishes, then the student will press the switch again and then I want the
presentation to advance to the next slide only and stay there until the
audio/video is completed. Is there a way to do this?
 
Bill's got some good ideas, here's another:

I'll assume that you want your students to be able to control the entire
presentation from that one switch rather than clicking on this or that with the
mouse. If that's the case, instead of animating action buttons on as the last
shape in the animation sequence, animate on a rectangle that covers the entire
slide (filled, unfilled or filled semi-transparent, your choice)

Set the rectangle's action setting to Next Slide.

Since it fills the entire screen, a click anywhere ON the screen will activate
the action setting and advance to the next slide.
 
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