Automatic slideshow to start a manual presentation

[partsman_ba]

We have a manually operated presentation for our church service. What we
would like to do is add an automatically changing slideshow at the beginning
(a la advertising at a movie theatre) that we can end and advance to the
first slide of the manual presentation by pressing the forward key.
Currently, we have exported the automatic file to a Mac, turned it into a
..gif file with Flash, and put that file back into our main presentation, but
it loses a LOT of quality in the translations. Is there a solution to our
dilemma? Preferably easy and doable on just a PC?

 

[John Wilson]

There's absolutely no need to use Flash to do this!!! (even though it seems
poosible to solve any problem with it [for some ;O)]

Try this:

Slide Show > custom shows > new

Add all the slides in the loop
Call the custom show "Loop"

Do it again and create a new custom show with all the other slides
Call this "Main"

Make sure that the slides in loop have an auto transition after xx secs

Add an action button to all the slides in "loop" that hyperlinks to custom
show "Main" - once you have made one you can copy and paste to the other
slides.

In Slide show set up show choose "loop continuously until esc" and show
slides > Custom show "loop"

When you start the show it will loop the first show until an action button
is clicked.

Note the second show will also loop so add an end show button at thye end.

If you don't want buttons there a very good tutorial from TAJ here:
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlooping.htm

 

[John Wilson]

You missed the reference to "Poosible" Steve, It just seemed right somehow!
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There's absolutely no need to use Flash to do this!!! (even though it seems
poosible to solve any problem with it [for some ;O)]

Yes! Yes! It's true!

I applied it to the slugs in our garden and they were gone. In a flash.

I used it on our roof to stop the leaks. It sealed the flashing.

Waved it at the neighborhood perv and he was gone. The flasher.

I went outdoors in the most recent thunderstorm, waved my hands in the air and
....


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