Using VBA to alter Enter key action

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Is it possible to use VBA in Powerpoint to change the click action when you
click on a slide so that it skips back a few sections.

Also is it possible to do this with the enter key. So that when someone is
using the presentation, they would press the enter key and the presentation
will skip say 3 pages backwards?

Ta.
 
You can use quick shows to change the navigation from slide to slide. Also,
one thing I do is provide links on a screen that offer the user more
information about some topic and if they click it, it goes to another "mini"
quick show, like a gosub that you can set to return to the original page when
they reach the end of the mini sequence, i.e. pressing enter takes them back
to the page that launched the sequence. If they choose not to click the
link, the main quick show skips over that sequence of screens.
I hope this helps.
 
Thanks
I've sort of incorporated your comments with those from someone else and
managed to get it to work as it needs.

Ta SJWi!
 
Thanks. That sort of helps.

The presentation currently uses hyperlinks to skip forwards, but when I do
so the presentation continues from that point, and I would rather the
presentation not continue and stay on this page even when the enter
key\left-click is used on the slide.

The problem I have is I don't want the person playing the presentation (whom
is not me, and i dont know) to be able to scroll through each slide in order.
I want to stop the slides moving forwards when the user left-clicks the
screen/presses the enter key (so to deactive these actions in a way).
This way the user has to use the navigation provided to progress.

I hope that makes sense. If anyone else has any ideas.
 
There is a property of quick shows that allows you to specify the page the
user will go to when they reach the end (and press Enter or any other advance
key). If each of your hyperlinks is a mini-quick show, then instead of
countermanding the action of these keys, they will cause the show to advance
or return as you specify in the quick show. You can actually create a ppt
that is a single main menu from which parts/sections of your content are
accessed and to which any navigation excursion will always return. In this
way the Enter or arrow keys work within the pages you specify in your quick
show.
 
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