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Ending Custom Shows
I am trying to help someone with a custom show, and we are having a
problem. He links to a custom show and wants to set a button to return to the main show. I advised him to set the link to the custom show to "show and return" and the Action Setting of the return Button to "End Show." This works perfectly on my system (PowerPoint 2002), but the end show button ends the entire presentation (not just the show) on his system (PowerPoint 2000). I also tried it on my Mac (PowerPoint X), and the end show button ends the entire presentation there as well. Is this a problem with PowerPoint 2000 and X, or should we be doing something else? I searched for any earlier postings about this but could not find them. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ |
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PowerPoint 2000 doesn't provide "show and return" for Custom Shows, so End Show
means "end it all". In PowerPoint 2000 the object could instead be linked to the slide he wants to return to. -- Sonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials "David M. Marcovitz" wrote in message 48.16... I am trying to help someone with a custom show, and we are having a problem. He links to a custom show and wants to set a button to return to the main show. I advised him to set the link to the custom show to "show and return" and the Action Setting of the return Button to "End Show." This works perfectly on my system (PowerPoint 2002), but the end show button ends the entire presentation (not just the show) on his system (PowerPoint 2000). I also tried it on my Mac (PowerPoint X), and the end show button ends the entire presentation there as well. Is this a problem with PowerPoint 2000 and X, or should we be doing something else? I searched for any earlier postings about this but could not find them. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ |
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Linking to the slide he wants to return to messes up in other ways. That
was what he was originally doing, but when he does that, a click to advance to the next slide takes him to the slide after the custom show, not the next slide. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ "Sonia" wrote in : PowerPoint 2000 doesn't provide "show and return" for Custom Shows, so End Show means "end it all". In PowerPoint 2000 the object could instead be linked to the slide he wants to return to. |
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Also, it seems strange to me because Show and Return does seem to be an
option in PowerPoint X, but it has the same bad behavior. I guess I'll have to ask about that in the Mac newsgroup. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ "David M. Marcovitz" wrote in 48.16: Linking to the slide he wants to return to messes up in other ways. That was what he was originally doing, but when he does that, a click to advance to the next slide takes him to the slide after the custom show, not the next slide. --David |
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In addition to what SoniaSez, can you instead link out to an independent
presentation (ie, a different PPT/PPS) instead of to custom shows? Then an End Show button would end the show linked TO, leaving the original slide you linked from visible. This won't, so far as I'm aware, be subject to any x-version glitchcraft. In article 6, David M. Marcovitz wrote: I am trying to help someone with a custom show, and we are having a problem. He links to a custom show and wants to set a button to return to the main show. I advised him to set the link to the custom show to "show and return" and the Action Setting of the return Button to "End Show." This works perfectly on my system (PowerPoint 2002), but the end show button ends the entire presentation (not just the show) on his system (PowerPoint 2000). I also tried it on my Mac (PowerPoint X), and the end show button ends the entire presentation there as well. Is this a problem with PowerPoint 2000 and X, or should we be doing something else? I searched for any earlier postings about this but could not find them. --David ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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Good idea. I'll suggest it.
--David -- David M. Marcovitz Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ Steve Rindsberg wrote in : In addition to what SoniaSez, can you instead link out to an independent presentation (ie, a different PPT/PPS) instead of to custom shows? Then an End Show button would end the show linked TO, leaving the original slide you linked from visible. This won't, so far as I'm aware, be subject to any x-version glitchcraft. |
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