Running two custom shows sequentially

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I have a presentation that has 50 slides. I've named slides 1-8 as custom
show "intro" and slides 9-50 as custom show "therest".

What I'd like is the ability to run "intro" looped continuously at 5 second
intervals until the user presses Esc (or whatever, but it has to run until
someone stops it), then once someone stops it, I want it to immediately jump
to "therest" without user intervention (other than stopping "intro").

I'm pretty sure I'll need to do it in VB and I have some experience there -
I've experimented with it for this problem with little to no success.

We've manually "fixed" the problem by just duplicating and inserting slides
1-8 ten or twelve times, but that makes the presentation huge and sometimes
that's not enough times or too many times. The time it needs to run is
variable.

Any ideas?

thanks SO much for any assistance anyone can give....

Jan
 
For slides 1-8 -Make a box 99% transparent taking up the entire slide. leave
that shape in front. Hyper link that shape to slide 9. Do that for all 8
slides. Now loop slides 1 - 8. Clicking the mouse brings the user to slide
9.

This is how I would address it. I do believe it will work without a glitch
and keep you presentation size as small as possible.

If the presentation is unmanned, be sure to put a message on the slides to
"click anywhere to begin presentation"

Then at the end of the presentation you can even have the user "click here
when done" and hyperlink that back to slide 1 and the loop. thereby setting
the unit up for the next user.
 
Thanks for the super quick response, Shawn!

That's getting there - it does get at the gist of what I'm trying to do - it
does hyperlink to slide 9 okay, but it doesn't break out of (end) the custom
show. So when you go to finish the rest of the presentation and try to go
from slide 9 to 10, it goes back to the custom show.

Oh, it's so close, I can almost taste it!
Jan
 
Ok Try this

Make it 2 seperate slide shows, 1-8 with box to hyper to 9 (slide one on new
ppt) at that point the show should continue to slide 2,3, etc. At end ,
takes you back to looping slide show.

This will take up a bit of power on PC running both at same time with the
loop but..
 
You are an ANGEL - that works PERFECTLY!! Thanks SO much - I owe you lunch
sometime! ;-)

Jan
 
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