Closing multiple windows

[Andrew Robertson]

Hi - wonder if anyone can help me with this ...

I have prepared a CD that has several links that open new PowerPoint
files. At any given time the user needs to be able to click back to
MAIN MENU and return to main menu - easy enough but I want to
close ALL the other open windows (presentations) at the point they
click and return to the main menu.

Can I do this? If so, what is the best method?

Any help - greatly appreciated.

thanks

 

[Sonia]

Clicking on a link to "End Show" will close the current presentation and window
and return you to the slide that you came from. Will that work? If so, use
Slide Show > Action Settings > Hyperlink To > End Show to link a button or text
object.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Andrew Robertson]

Clicking on a link to "End Show" will close the current presentation and window
and return you to the slide that you came from. Will that work? If so, use
Slide Show > Action Settings > Hyperlink To > End Show to link a button or text
object.

Hi Sonia

Sadly, it doesn't solve my problem because from the MAIN MENU there is
a sub menu that opens and from that sub menu the user chooses a
product. When the choose a product and are finished looking at that
product (which is a seperate pp file) I need both the product file and
the sub menu to close. Otherwise potentially a user could have many
windows open which would probably start to use up to much memory and
could have the user having to click multiple buttons to close the open
files. Does this make sense?

regards

Jeff

 

[Echo S]

Hi Sonia

Sadly, it doesn't solve my problem because from the MAIN MENU there is
a sub menu that opens and from that sub menu the user chooses a
product. When the choose a product and are finished looking at that
product (which is a seperate pp file) I need both the product file and
the sub menu to close. Otherwise potentially a user could have many
windows open which would probably start to use up to much memory and
could have the user having to click multiple buttons to close the open
files. Does this make sense?

What Steve and Sonia said.

And, what about using Custom Shows? You could then use the Show and Return
feature under Action Settings/Hyperlink to/Custom Show to close them out.
You'd have to put the presentations all into one presentation and set up
custom shows, though.