Action Buttons and Animation

[Susan]

Hi
I have been working on a presentation using Action
Buttons, I have the file set up so that the only way the
presentation can be navigated is by clicking on an action
button. At the end of the presentation I want the student
to be able to view it again if they want to, on the last
slide I have put in the rewind button for this purpose and
linked it to the first slide. However, when the
presentation is run the second time the bullets etc that
are animated are already displayed. Is there anyway to
restart the presentation and the animation?

Susan

 

[Bill Foley]

When you return to a slide you come to the "end" of the slide. The way
around that is to put a blank slide with the same background just before the
slide you want to come back to, set its "Slide Transition" to zero seconds
and it will automatically go to the desired slide (at the beginning of the
slide).

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not reset animations and slide timings (including
automatically playing inserted multimedia) on a previously viewed slide
when you jump to it from a later viewed slide. Of course, they 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/?id=197701

If it is important to you (or anyone else reading this message) that
PowerPoint include a method for choosing whether or not animations on
slide(s) replay when revisted without normal looping (perhaps a slide or
presentation option, or a Action Setting which can be chosen during slide
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[Susan]

Thanks guys, I'll give each method a try and see which
best suits the purpose.

Susan