Slide transition

[Charlie3110]

Even though I have made dozens of Power Point presentations I am am stumped
on a basic operation. The latest one I have made refuses to budge off of the
opening slide. I made the transition timing automatic after so many seconds
as usual and applied it to all slides but even though my opening slide with
the custom animations and music works fine the slide then will not advance
automatically to the next slide. I know I am missing something very basic but
because all other presentations have worked fine and I am using a proven
method I am stumped as to what has gone wrong? I had to change my animations
to start after previous to get them to work at all and I haven't had to do
that before so I am sure that this is the link but still can't fathom how to
start the first of many slides after the previous?
Thanks

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You probably have the music set incorrectly and the slide is waiting until
the music ends before it will advance.

Try looking at this faq page:
Friday - The Automatic FAQ Maker
Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00047.htm


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[Charlie3110]

Thanks for your prompt and useful answer Bill. I have checked the link you
sent me and this corroborates all that I thought I had done and usually do. I
am missing something obvious as I have deleted the sound now and set the
transition to 2 secs to get things moving but nothing happens unless I change
the transitions to mouse click. I have done dozens of these without problem
but this set of slides that were sent to me to add music must have some thing
set in them that inhibits the auto slide transition. Ideas?

 

[Dave]

You could try opening a new presentation and insert from file the slides
from the troublesome presentation and see if that helps. Keeping
formatting of course.

 

[Echo S]

You need to set "stop playing after XXX" number of slides.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Without seeing the slide, it sounds like you may have a delay set on one or
more of the animations - or possibly a very long animation time. Without
the sound file to delay the advance, it has to be that it is waiting for
some other animation to complete.

You may want to look at your animations using the advanced animation
timeline. Right click on any animation and select Show advanced timeline.
Then look for the one that is far off to the right.

--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
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[Charlie3110]

Thanks for the suggestions gentlemen. I have already set the stop playing
after 999 slides as normal. I have checked the advanced timeline on the last
animation and it says start playing after 8s and stop playing after 11s so I
don't think it is this. I will try to make a new presentation using the same
slides but the slides were already sent to me in a presentation with advance
with the mouse click and no music. I was just trying to add music and get the
advancement in auto in time with the music as I have done many times before
but this so far defeats me as to why it stops on my opening page with the
credit animations? I will save as a web page and extract all of the slides
into another folder and start again. Is this the best way or other ideas?
Thanks

 

[Hal wants to know where the answer is, i]

Even though I have made dozens of Power Point presentations I am am stumped
on a basic operation. The latest one I have made refuses to budge off of the
opening slide. I made the transition timing automatic after so many seconds
as usual and applied it to all slides but even though my opening slide with
the custom animations and music works fine the slide then will not advance
automatically to the next slide. I know I am missing something very basic but
because all other presentations have worked fine and I am using a proven
method I am stumped as to what has gone wrong? I had to change my animations
to start after previous to get them to work at all and I haven't had to do
that before so I am sure that this is the link but still can't fathom how to
start the first of many slides after the previous?
Thanks

 

[Presentation Studio]

Do you have an animation within the slide set to appear 'on click' it could
be waiting for this to action first?

--
Emma Bannister
PowerPoint Specialist
www.presentationstudio.com


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