Re: Automatically Advance To a Certain Slide??

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Jessi,

That's really annoying. Kiosk mode is what you want to limit the user's
navigation, but it seems to be screwing up the custom show. You can set your
slides to not advance on mouse click, but users will have other ways to move
around that Kiosk mode prevents. I'm hoping someone else is going to chime in
here with some good work-arounds for this problem. One that comes to mind is
to use separate slide shows. Instead of linking to a custom show, you should
be able to link to a totally separate file that automatically runs through
and then exits without looping. The drawback of this is that some people will
have "End with black slide" checked on their computers (and that is a setting
for a computer, not for a slide show), so it would pause at a black slide
before returning to the menu. I guess I'm fresh out of ideas right now. Maybe
TAJ's linking tutorial will give you some ideas (and maybe TAJ himself will
bail me out with a good answer):

http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

"JessiRight77@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> The "loop continuously until ESC" feature is selected and greyed out.
> I set up my show up to be "Browsed at a Kiosk" because I had so many
> "branches leading off the main road" that I wanted to set up custom
> navigation. I did not want the user to be able to advance the slide
> by just clicking anywhere... I wanted to force him/her to use my set of
> buttons. I am a novice to PowerPoint, so there was probably a better
> way to do this, but this is the reason the "loop continuously" button
> is greyed out.
>
> The "work-around" I used to fix my problem with the "repeating
> animations" when the user is returned to the Menu was to insert an
> identical Menu (without all the animations) that immediately displays
> after the animated Menu. I then have the users return to the
> non-animated Menu.
>
> Although this arrangement works fine now on my computer, it is
> extremely important to me that this presentation work well on other
> computers too. So, I tested your suggestion by changing the Setup
> Show option to "Presented by a Speaker" (which removed the checkmark
> beside the "Loop Continuously" option) and I then removed the Menu
> slide from the Custom Show. You are right... each slide now jumps
> back to the main menu perfectly! BUT.. now the user can advance the
> slide by clicking on their screen with the mouse... how can I disable
> their "clicking ability" without using the "Browsed at Kiosk" function?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jessi
>
>
.

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