Animation not working when moving backwards though slides

[Gerrit Kiers]

Hi all,

Please help me out in this situation. I am rather new to PowerPoint
(Office 2000 SR1).

I put two actionbuttons on slides to move forwards and backwards. I
have to make these buttons appear with delay to prevent my user to
browse quickly though the slides. This is to prevent freezing of
PowerPoint itself, since these slides contains OLE objects and it
seems to me these objects have to be loaded (almost) entirely before I
can proceed to the next slide without problems.

So I grouped my two actionbuttons and made a custom animation making
them appear 5 seconds after previous event. (This is a default option
in the custom animation window). Works fine when the side is loaded
for the first time. But when I move back the buttons are available
from the first second still allowing my user to browse too quickly.

How can I make sure my delAy always works when the slide is activated?

Any help greatly appriciated!

Gerrit

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello Gerrit,

Even the latest version of PowerPoint for Windows, PowerPoint 2003, does
not replay animations on a previously viewed slide when you jump to it from
a later viewed slide. Of course, the animations are reset when the
presentation loops back to the beginning or you navigate "naturally" to a
slide from it's previous slide. Here is a KB article for PowerPoint 2000
that describes a couple of workarounds (similar articles exist for other
versions of PowerPoint):

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197701&Product=ppt

If the option to choose whether or not the animations on a slide replay
from the beginning, regardless of whether it was previously viewed or not,
is important to you (or anyone else reading this message), don't forget to
send your feedback to Microsoft at:

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John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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