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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
I am using Power Point to make simple slide shows for children to advance
with a mouse click, as they work independently at the computer. I am narrating each slide. I want the program to ignore inadvertent mouse clicks until the narration is complete, then advance the slide the next time the mouse is clicked (even though children may take varying amounts of time to click the mouse). I do not want to use action buttons, just a simple mouse click where the cursor could be anywhere on the screen. I find that the children are clicking the mouse and advancing the slides before the narration for each slide is complete. I cannot find any way to keep them from doing this. I don't want to time each slide, because the narration on the slides may be of varying lengths--some with longer narration, some with shorter narration. Thank you in advance! |
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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
Diane,
You can disallow clicking to advance slides by choosing (in PowerPoint 2002/2003) Slide Show Slide Transition. In the Slide Transition task pane, uncheck the On Mouse Click check box in the Advance Slide section. Then set automatic timings for each slide according to the length of the narration. After timing each slide's narration, select each slide and use the same transition to set its timing in the Automatically After text box in the same location I just mentioned. Would this work? Ellen Author of How to Do Everything with PowerPoint 2007 www.ellenfinkelstein.com "Diane" wrote: I am using Power Point to make simple slide shows for children to advance with a mouse click, as they work independently at the computer. I am narrating each slide. I want the program to ignore inadvertent mouse clicks until the narration is complete, then advance the slide the next time the mouse is clicked (even though children may take varying amounts of time to click the mouse). I do not want to use action buttons, just a simple mouse click where the cursor could be anywhere on the screen. I find that the children are clicking the mouse and advancing the slides before the narration for each slide is complete. I cannot find any way to keep them from doing this. I don't want to time each slide, because the narration on the slides may be of varying lengths--some with longer narration, some with shorter narration. Thank you in advance! |
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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
Diane,
Here is a simple way to do what you want. First, set the slide transition for your slides (Slide Show Slide Transition) so that it doesn't advance on mouse click (uncheck the box). Next, create a rectangle that covers the entire slide. Select the rectangle and choose Format Autoshape to set the rectangle to 99% transparent. Now, you need to set the animation order. If you have a sound icon, then you already have an animation effect for the sound, so you need to make sure that the animation effect is set to With Previous. Next, add an animation for your 99% transparent rectangle and set it to After Previous. To round out the animations, drag the sound's animation (in the custom animation task pane) above the rectangle's animation. Finally, you need to set a hyperlink or action setting for the 99% transparent rectangle to Next Slide. What this will do is have the sound play and then bring in the rectangle (which the students won't actually see). While the sound is playing, the rectangle is not there, so a mouse click will not work. Once the sound has played and the rectangle has come in, any mouse click will have to be on the rectangle because it covers the whole slide, and the click will take you to the next slide. Let us know how this works for you. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ "Diane" wrote in : I am using Power Point to make simple slide shows for children to advance with a mouse click, as they work independently at the computer. I am narrating each slide. I want the program to ignore inadvertent mouse clicks until the narration is complete, then advance the slide the next time the mouse is clicked (even though children may take varying amounts of time to click the mouse). I do not want to use action buttons, just a simple mouse click where the cursor could be anywhere on the screen. I find that the children are clicking the mouse and advancing the slides before the narration for each slide is complete. I cannot find any way to keep them from doing this. I don't want to time each slide, because the narration on the slides may be of varying lengths--some with longer narration, some with shorter narration. Thank you in advance! |
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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
In the slide transition pane
Set the transition of the slide with narration to automatically after 0 seconds Make the next slide a duplicate of this slide but with no narration set this slide to transition "on click" Be careful NOT to click apply to all slides. -- Amazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials-http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html email john AT technologytrish.co.uk "Diane" wrote: I am using Power Point to make simple slide shows for children to advance with a mouse click, as they work independently at the computer. I am narrating each slide. I want the program to ignore inadvertent mouse clicks until the narration is complete, then advance the slide the next time the mouse is clicked (even though children may take varying amounts of time to click the mouse). I do not want to use action buttons, just a simple mouse click where the cursor could be anywhere on the screen. I find that the children are clicking the mouse and advancing the slides before the narration for each slide is complete. I cannot find any way to keep them from doing this. I don't want to time each slide, because the narration on the slides may be of varying lengths--some with longer narration, some with shorter narration. Thank you in advance! |
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Loved the triad of answers that were given to Diane. David, why 99%
transparent and not 100% transparent? Rick A. |
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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
In certain versions, 100% transparency makes PowerPoint ignore the fill
entirely, so a click in the middle of a rectangle does not register as a click on the rectangle (i.e., with 100% transparency, you might have to click on the edge of the rectangle for it to register). With 99% transparencey, it still looks transparent, but there is enough fill left that those rogue versions of PowerPoint won't ignore the click in the middle. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ "Rick Altman" wrote in news:eNmVu51WHHA.4632 @TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl: Loved the triad of answers that were given to Diane. David, why 99% transparent and not 100% transparent? Rick A. |
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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
Excellent -- do you know offhand which versions require the 99% trick?
"David M. Marcovitz" wrote in message 48.16... In certain versions, 100% transparency makes PowerPoint ignore the fill entirely, so a click in the middle of a rectangle does not register as a click on the rectangle (i.e., with 100% transparency, you might have to click on the edge of the rectangle for it to register). With 99% transparencey, it still looks transparent, but there is enough fill left that those rogue versions of PowerPoint won't ignore the click in the middle. |
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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
No, I don't remember. I'll bet someone else does. My brain cells want to
say something about the Viewer, but I'm not sure. --David "Rick Altman" wrote in news:OB9kX72WHHA.488 @TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: Excellent -- do you know offhand which versions require the 99% trick? "David M. Marcovitz" wrote in message 48.16... In certain versions, 100% transparency makes PowerPoint ignore the fill entirely, so a click in the middle of a rectangle does not register as a click on the rectangle (i.e., with 100% transparency, you might have to click on the edge of the rectangle for it to register). With 99% transparencey, it still looks transparent, but there is enough fill left that those rogue versions of PowerPoint won't ignore the click in the middle. |
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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
I know that Viewer 2003 has problems with the 100% transparency. I think
some of the older versions do too. -- Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com I believe life is meant to be lived. But: if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived "David M. Marcovitz" wrote in message 48.16... No, I don't remember. I'll bet someone else does. My brain cells want to say something about the Viewer, but I'm not sure. --David "Rick Altman" wrote in news:OB9kX72WHHA.488 @TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: Excellent -- do you know offhand which versions require the 99% trick? "David M. Marcovitz" wrote in message 48.16... In certain versions, 100% transparency makes PowerPoint ignore the fill entirely, so a click in the middle of a rectangle does not register as a click on the rectangle (i.e., with 100% transparency, you might have to click on the edge of the rectangle for it to register). With 99% transparencey, it still looks transparent, but there is enough fill left that those rogue versions of PowerPoint won't ignore the click in the middle. |
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Ignoring mouse clicks until slide narration is complete
Thanks!! This idea worked. I had to time each slides's narration, and set
the "automatically" accordingly. It will take a little longer to put together my presentations (to insert duplicate slides), but it will be well worth the time. Now my little students will "have to listen" to my narration, but will then be able to independently click their mouse to move to the next slide. Once again, thanks so much! "John Wilson" john AT technologytrish.co DOT uk wrote in message ... In the slide transition pane Set the transition of the slide with narration to automatically after 0 seconds Make the next slide a duplicate of this slide but with no narration set this slide to transition "on click" Be careful NOT to click apply to all slides. -- Amazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials-http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html email john AT technologytrish.co.uk "Diane" wrote: I am using Power Point to make simple slide shows for children to advance with a mouse click, as they work independently at the computer. I am narrating each slide. I want the program to ignore inadvertent mouse clicks until the narration is complete, then advance the slide the next time the mouse is clicked (even though children may take varying amounts of time to click the mouse). I do not want to use action buttons, just a simple mouse click where the cursor could be anywhere on the screen. I find that the children are clicking the mouse and advancing the slides before the narration for each slide is complete. I cannot find any way to keep them from doing this. I don't want to time each slide, because the narration on the slides may be of varying lengths--some with longer narration, some with shorter narration. Thank you in advance! |
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