music won't stop

I have a main presentation that has separate buttons that hyperlink to 20 other powerpoint presentation files. Each of these 20 presentations has different music (.mp3 files) that is set to play across all slides in the presentation. Each of these presentations also has an "exit" button, that ends the slideshow and returns the user to the main presentation. Here's my problem: the music for each presentation will not stop when any of the 20 presentations are exited, and the music continues unwanted during the main presentation. How do I make the music end when a user clicks "exit" on one of the sub-presentations? I want it to end whether the user has viewed all slides or just a few. Thanks.

Try this. I think it should work, but I've never tried it. If you are
using an Exit button, right click on the Exit button and choose Action
Settings. Check the Play Sound box at the bottom and choose Stop All
Sounds for your sound.
--David

David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

"=?Utf-8?B?c2hlbGxleWM=?=" wrote in
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I have a main presentation that has separate buttons that hyperlink to
20 other powerpoint presentation files. Each of these 20 presentations
has different music (.mp3 files) that is set to play across all slides
in the presentation. Each of these presentations also has an "exit"
button, that ends the slideshow and returns the user to the main
presentation. Here's my problem: the music for each presentation will
not stop when any of the 20 presentations are exited, and the music
continues unwanted during the main presentation. How do I make the
music end when a user clicks "exit" on one of the sub-presentations? I
want it to end whether the user has viewed all slides or just a few.
Thanks.

update: I noticed the problem only occurs when I'm running the presentation with the PowerPoint Viewer from a CD. Not only does the music continue unwanted, but I see in the Task Manager that the individual presentations don't end -- that's why the music continues. The sub-presentations appear to end -- when a user clicks "exit" he is redirected to the main presentation -- but they keep running in the background. Help! Why don't the presentations end when a user clicks a button that has been set up to "end program." ? It is true that I've set it up to run in kiosk mode, but it works fine when I'm running it from a hard drive in PowerPoint -- the problem only occurs when I run the presentation with the viewer. Please help. Thanks.

"shelleyc" wrote:

I have a main presentation that has separate buttons that hyperlink to 20 other powerpoint presentation files. Each of these 20 presentations has different music (.mp3 files) that is set to play across all slides in the presentation. Each of these presentations also has an "exit" button, that ends the slideshow and returns the user to the main presentation. Here's my problem: the music for each presentation will not stop when any of the 20 presentations are exited, and the music continues unwanted during the main presentation. How do I make the music end when a user clicks "exit" on one of the sub-presentations? I want it to end whether the user has viewed all slides or just a few. Thanks.

thanks for the suggestion. I think you were answering just as I was posting an update to my question -- stopping the music would solve only part of the problem. What happens is that the presentations don't end when a user clicks a button set up to "end show" -- they still show up as running in the Windows Task Manager. And if a user calls several presentations, the machine will freeze up due to memory overload.
For some reason, the Viewer doesn't properly recognize the "end show" command. Maybe it has something to do with being in kiosk mode in combination with using the Viewer. I'm stumped. Any ideas on a workaround?

"David M. Marcovitz" wrote:

Try this. I think it should work, but I've never tried it. If you are
using an Exit button, right click on the Exit button and choose Action
Settings. Check the Play Sound box at the bottom and choose Stop All
Sounds for your sound.
--David

David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

"=?Utf-8?B?c2hlbGxleWM=?=" wrote in
:

I have a main presentation that has separate buttons that hyperlink to
20 other powerpoint presentation files. Each of these 20 presentations
has different music (.mp3 files) that is set to play across all slides
in the presentation. Each of these presentations also has an "exit"
button, that ends the slideshow and returns the user to the main
presentation. Here's my problem: the music for each presentation will
not stop when any of the 20 presentations are exited, and the music
continues unwanted during the main presentation. How do I make the
music end when a user clicks "exit" on one of the sub-presentations? I
want it to end whether the user has viewed all slides or just a few.
Thanks.