Define criteria for hiding PowerPoint slides?

[Radnorer]

Is there any way to define criteria for selectively displaying powerpoint
slides?

For example, say I regularly use a presentation with 120 slides split into
10 topics. Depending on the audience I will want to show a selection of
these topics. Rather than individually hiding/showing the desired slides,
I'd like to associate some topic marker with each slide and, when I run the
presentation, choose which topics I want (imagine a set of checkboxes). It
will automatically show only those slides that are associated with one of the
selected topics.
I don't mind writing a macro but I can't even work out whether you could
have buttons that could be pressed to set some variables (or whatever).

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You are going about it the hard way, I think. You are trying to hide the
stuff you don't want, when it would be much easier to show the stuff you do.

PowerPoint has a neat little feature called custom shows. If you set up
your main presentation as your 'slide bank' then you can selectively add
slides to a custom show to build a topic show. But wait, it gets better.
You can hyperlink to these custom shows so that you can create a menu of
these custom shows on a slide.

Excellent stuff on this at :
http://www.powerpointanswers.com/article1058.html

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[David M. Marcovitz]

I was thinking exactly along the lines of what Bill said. However, that
might not be enough for you. It is certainly the easiest thing to do and
provides 90% of the functionality you want. Getting that last 10% would
require some programming, and I'm guessing it's not worth the effort.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
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Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Brian Reilly, MS MVP]

Steve,
Seems to me the Piggie toolbar could use an update to add Tags, or
does it already do that? Shoot me the current version as a ppt and
I'll add it. I can use it on a project I'm trying to finish up in
early Jan. That means it'll get done (g).

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP