Restarting a slide show from a given slide

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I have a couple of lengthy training pieces. On occassion I want to back out of the show and move to a previous slide e.g. slide 35 and revisit slide 1. I could "esc" in Freelance and "select" the slide I wanted to move to. Additionally, In Freelance Grraphics I could "restart" a slide show from a given slide. It appears that Powerpoint only allows you to "backspace" to a previous slide and/or start from the beginning if you are running a manual show? Am I missing something?
 
PowerPoint 2003 introduced Shift+F5 keyboard shortcut to start the slide
show from the current slide. For previous versions, you might want to look
at Shortcuts for PowerPoint add-in at
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppshortcuts/ppshortcuts.html

Other ways to start a slide show from the current slide:
1. On the lower left corner, you would see a small button that has a
screen-like icon. This button would start the slide show from the current
slide.
2. If you know the slide number of the current slide, you can start the
slide show using F5 key and key-in the slide number followed by <Enter> key.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

Maxmar said:
I have a couple of lengthy training pieces. On occassion I want to back
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out of the show and move to a previous slide e.g. slide 35 and revisit
slide 1. I could "esc" in Freelance and "select" the slide I wanted to move
to. Additionally, In Freelance Grraphics I could "restart" a slide show
from a given slide. It appears that Powerpoint only allows you to
"backspace" to a previous slide and/or start from the beginning if you are
running a manual show? Am I missing something?
 
You may also benefit from a look at
Help | Microsoft PowerPoint Help | {tab} Index | {type} Keyboard shortcuts

Read the section titled "Slide show keyboard shortcuts" This is a very
useful list stuff that a lot of users never find or read.

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Maxmar said:
I have a couple of lengthy training pieces. On occassion I want to back
Click to expand...
out of the show and move to a previous slide e.g. slide 35 and revisit
slide 1. I could "esc" in Freelance and "select" the slide I wanted to move
to. Additionally, In Freelance Grraphics I could "restart" a slide show
from a given slide. It appears that Powerpoint only allows you to
"backspace" to a previous slide and/or start from the beginning if you are
running a manual show? Am I missing something?
 
And a third tip would be to open a presentation and go to View > Show. Then
press F1 to see the shortcuts that are available in slide show mode.
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Maxmar said:
I have a couple of lengthy training pieces. On occassion I want to back
Click to expand...
out of the show and move to a previous slide e.g. slide 35 and revisit
slide 1. I could "esc" in Freelance and "select" the slide I wanted to move
to. Additionally, In Freelance Grraphics I could "restart" a slide show
from a given slide. It appears that Powerpoint only allows you to
"backspace" to a previous slide and/or start from the beginning if you are
running a manual show? Am I missing something?
 
I've always used slide number and return. Therefore "1" "Enter"(Without the quotes) Takes you to the First slide, "35" "Return" takes you to slide 35 regardless of where you are now.. Works anywhere, anytime, and as long as you know the slide numbers is a great way of giving a dynamic presentation without the audience knowing that you're skipping slides
 
I have a couple of lengthy training pieces. On occassion I want to
Click to expand...
back out of the show and move to a previous slide e.g. slide 35 and
revisit slide 1. I could "esc" in Freelance and "select" the slide I
wanted to move to. Additionally, In Freelance Grraphics I could
"restart" a slide show from a given slide. It appears that Powerpoint
only allows you to "backspace" to a previous slide and/or start from
the beginning if you are running a manual show? Am I missing
something?
Yup, and you're gonna love it. You're on slide 35, you want to go
back to slide one, here's the trick:

Press 1
Press Enter

Done.

You can hop to any slide by typing its number + Enter
 
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