Using HTML navigation to move thru PPT presentation

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Hello all,

I would like to be able to use HTML-like navigation to move through a Powerpoint presentation with multiple internal hyperlinks. Specifically, I need to be able to start from Slide A and click on progressive hyperlinks that take me to Slide B, Slide C, Slide D, etc. (all at different places within the same document, but not in sequential order), then use a "back" button to reverse course and eventually make my way back to Slide A.

At first I tried action buttons, but that didn't work because Powerpoint doesn't remember the "history" of past hyperlinks -- you can only go to the most recently visited slide, which means you get stuck going from Slide D to Slide C and then back to Slide D. I think the solution might involve saving as an HTML file and using a browser to navigate, but in order to get this to work I would have to save *each slide* as its own HTML file, rather than one HTML file for the whole presentation. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks,
Geigercounter
 
At first I tried action buttons, but that didn't work because Powerpoint
doesn't remember the "history" of past hyperlinks -- you can only go to the
most recently visited slide, which means you get stuck going from Slide D to
Slide C and then back to Slide D. I think the solution might involve saving
as an HTML file and using a browser to navigate, but in order to get this to
work I would have to save *each slide* as its own HTML file, rather than one
HTML file for the whole presentation. Is there any way to do this?

Depending on the version of PPT you use, it may still work. It does save
to several different HTML files. Worth a try.

You might also want to have a look at our free PPT2HTML demo at
www.rdpslides.com/ppt2html/
It creates one HTML file per slide and implements PowerPoint's "Back"
actions as HTML/javascript Back clicks, so it works as a browser would.
 
Hello,

Select "Last Slide Viewed" as the action setting for your
button to emulate the back button in a browser.

HTH,
Glenna
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Hello all,

I would like to be able to use HTML-like navigation to
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move through a Powerpoint presentation with multiple
internal hyperlinks. Specifically, I need to be able to
start from Slide A and click on progressive hyperlinks
that take me to Slide B, Slide C, Slide D, etc. (all at
different places within the same document, but not in
sequential order), then use a "back" button to reverse
course and eventually make my way back to Slide A.
At first I tried action buttons, but that didn't work
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because Powerpoint doesn't remember the "history" of past
hyperlinks -- you can only go to the most recently visited
slide, which means you get stuck going from Slide D to
Slide C and then back to Slide D. I think the solution
might involve saving as an HTML file and using a browser
to navigate, but in order to get this to work I would have
to save *each slide* as its own HTML file, rather than one
HTML file for the whole presentation. Is there any way to
do this?
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for
(remember "history" of all previously visted slides during a show) without
resorting to VBA or add-ins (to somehow create a "history" to use).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality (without having to resort to
VBA or add-ins), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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Select "Last Slide Viewed" as the action setting for your
button to emulate the back button in a browser.
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Not exactly ...

A browser back button walks you back through a history of pages you've been
to previously.

Go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
then press Back to get 4, 3, 2, 1

Last Slide Viewed means *precisely* what it says.

Go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
then press Last Slide Viewed multiple times and get 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5

When you're on 5, 4 is the last slide viewed
When you Last Slide Viewed from 5 to 4, 4 is the last slide you were on, so
LSV dutifully (if uselessly) takes you back there.

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