Re: Anbody found what property of a slide resets it for builds/animations?

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From: Steve Rindsberg (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 01/15/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:11:30 EST

In article <OvSlv9j#EHA.3124@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, Mike M. wrote:
> How can I reset the animations? Just for fun I put a .GotoSlide
> ..CurrentShowPosition, msoTrue in the next slide event and it went nuts in an
> infernal loop re-entering the slide. Not very useful but hours of fun.

It's ugly but you can set a global boolean UserClickedMe to True by default,
then when you're about to run some of your own code that'll trigger slide
changes, you set it to False.

Then have the Change event handler respond or not depending on the value of
UserClickedMe.

>
> "Bill Dilworth" <vestprog2@yahoo.org> wrote in message
> news:uLYacLd%23EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > There is code that will go to a slide and reset the animations, however
> the
> > problem is the trappable event 'Next Slide' is not triggered until *after*
> > the slide has changed.
> >
> > So, if you do not mind the slide transitioning in, and then
> re-transitioning
> > in with the animations rest, then you can use the Next Slide event to
> reset
> > the animations.
> >
> > Another problem is that the code is dependent on many machine based
> factors
> > (this will prevent it from being useful on a presentation you plan to
> > distribute).
> > --
> > Bill Dilworth
> > Microsoft PPT MVP Team
> > Users helping fellow users.
> > ===============
> > Please spend a few minutes checking vestprog2@
> > out www.pptfaq.com This link will yahoo.
> > answer most of our questions, before com
> > you think to ask them.
> >
> > Change org to com to defuse anti-spam,
> > ant-virus, anti-nuisance misdirection.
> > .
> > .
> >
> >
> > "Mike M." <nospam@someplace.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23u32kfb%23EHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > PPT 2002. If I could find this then I could maybe set it in the
> NextSlide
> > > event so animations/builds, etc. would run when revisiting a slide.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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