Anbody found what property of a slide resets it for builds/animations?

M

Mike M.

PPT 2002. If I could find this then I could maybe set it in the NextSlide
event so animations/builds, etc. would run when revisiting a slide.

TIA
 
B

Bill Dilworth

There is code that will go to a slide and reset the animations, however the
problem is the trappable event 'Next Slide' is not triggered until *after*
the slide has changed.

So, if you do not mind the slide transitioning in, and then re-transitioning
in with the animations rest, then you can use the Next Slide event to reset
the animations.

Another problem is that the code is dependent on many machine based factors
(this will prevent it from being useful on a presentation you plan to
distribute).
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B

Bill Foley

You can try this to see if it works for you. I haven't tried it out in
quite awhile though:

Sub ResetSlide()

With SlideShowWindows(1).View

.GotoSlide .CurrentShowPosition, msoTrue

End With

End Sub
 
M

Mike M.

How can I reset the animations? Just for fun I put a .GotoSlide
..CurrentShowPosition, msoTrue in the next slide event and it went nuts in an
infernal loop re-entering the slide. Not very useful but hours of fun.
 
M

Mike M.

That does work but I am trying to find a solution so my customers (who build
the preses) don't have to know anything about the VBA editor (which they
don't). I have an addin that traps events and I was hoping I could find the
"magic switch" property of a slide or show that I could reset in the
NextSlide event so the animations and such would play. Know any "magic
switches"?
 
M

Mike M.

Me also. I think it can be done because they (MS) do it via .GotoSlide
..CurrentShowPosition, msoTrue. Unless they did not expose that
property/method for automation. I've looked through about 3 gazillion
various and sundry properties of my pes using the VB debugger. If you learn
any new magic let me know. <g>
 
B

Bill Dilworth

There is no property that will do what you want without the cust. knowing
(and maybe not allowing) code.

You can reset the animations on each slide *After* you transition into by
re-transitioning into it again via code, using an add-in. Drop me an email
if you want an example. This is not usually a pretty transition, but does
reset the animations on each slide.

I'd suggest using the wish line to let the people who make the code
understand your need.
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp


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M

Mike M.

I tried that and it was pretty bad. I am not sure what I am going to do at
this point. I may keep looking at the other 10,967 properties of a pres. to
look for some magic.
 
M

Mike M.

Yeah. I am too sad about this right now to continue. I think I'll walk
away from it for a day or so. Maybe things will be better then! ;-)
 
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