The solution to this is not intuitive, in fact its a little devious.
You need to create a Picket-fence master show. This master show will link
to several other shows, some that are looped, some that are not. The reason
it is called picket fenced is that either one or two shows are open at any
given time. In a straight link master file, the shows are added and are
cumulative. Here's the steps:
Build you looping show. Insert a blank slide as slide one, give it a 10
minute auto-advance, and hide it. Set all the other auto timed transition
advances to the correct times, and check the loop until escape in the set-up
menu. Save it. (unique file name)
Build your non-looping show. Create a new show and again insert a blank
slide as the first slide and also one as the last slide. Add the rest of
the presentation as you have need. Save this, too. (unique file name)
Read the tutorial on looping and linking provided in the link by TAJ.
Now, build you Master Control show, this will be a small, but slightly
complex show. On slide 2, insert your looping show as an object and set the
custom animation to appear after previous. On my PowerPoint 2002
(PowerPoint XP) system, the look of the action settings are a little
different than in the tutorial. They are listed under the "Entrance,
Emphasis, Exit, Motion Paths, **Object setting**" heading of "add effect"
button. The Object Setting needs to be changed to "show"
Repeat the process for the 3rd slide using your non-looping show.
You now have the basic set-up and framework for what you want. Start the
main show. When you advance to the 2nd slide, the presentation will jump to
the 2nd slide in the looping presentation. The looping presentation will
continue to loop until you stop it by typing the number "1" and hitting
"enter" (the forces the looping show to goto slide 1) then "Escape" (this
ends the looping show and resumes the Master show). Advance to slide 3 in
the master show and you will be taken to slide 1 in the Non-looping show.
This will progress normally until you hit escape or run out of slides. At
this point, you will return to the master show.
If any of this does not make sense, post back and I'll run you thru it.
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Tomm said:
I want to run a slide loop and jump to specific slides during the show.
Can I do this, if so HOW??? I want it to continue looping afterwards...
