Force users to view each slide

[James]

Is there a way to force users to view each slide? Once
they start the show, I don't want them to be able to end
the show or go to specific pages. I want them to have to
advance slide by slide.

Thanks in advance!
james

 

[Austin Myers]

Go to slide sorter view and un-check "advance on mouse click". Then check,
"advance automatically after x seconds."

This stops the user from clicking through the slide and forces it to remain
on screen for a predetermined time.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[B]

Another option , depending on the expertise of yourself and your target
audience, is to uncheck both "advance on mouse" and timed options from all
the slides. Select Kiosk mode from the set-up menu to disable the keyboard.
Download the No-Escape add-in that will prevent quitting the show. And
finally, create a control button on each slide that, when pressed, directs
the show to the next slide only.

Beware, however. In testing you may run into several situations where you
will not be able to advance or quit. Rebooting will loose unsaved data, so
save often.

B

 

[D Small]

And i might say, when you un-check "advance on mouse click", don't "apply to
all" - or all the slides change to the timing of the one you have selected for
this procedure. D.
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[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

Beware, however. In testing you may run into several situations where you

will not be able to advance or quit. Rebooting will loose unsaved data, so
save often.

Maybe put an End Show button on the Master, to be deleted or moved offscreen
once done testing.

 

[Tushar Mehta]

No, you can't force people to view every slide. Unless you intend to
tie them down and tape their eyelids open.

My personal attitude is that if someone will not let me control a
presentation that I am viewing by myself, chances are very high that I
don't need to view it. Probably the reason I don't watch very many --
if any -- 'multimedia tutorials' that insist I watch some introductory
fluff video segment.

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[Tushar Mehta]

This might be a duplicate post. The msnews server seems to be skipping
some posts (but I imagine it might post them later).

<vbg>

But, how does one stop the user from using ALT-TAB, CTRL-ALT-DELETE,
the power switch, or just pulling the power cord out of the wall?

Or closing their eyes, or walking away from the computer?

Damn, I really, really want the user to read aloud every word on every
slide of my presentation.

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[B]

Well ... it is difficult to keep PowerPoint running when the power is cut
off to the host computer. Although, by editing the systems INI files, you
could make the user continue the presentation from the exit point on
power-up. (Programmers that do this have their own section of hell reserved
for them.)

You could even put a front-end sign-in on the presentation that would track
who signs-in and who completes, without a way to skip the middle part. This
would give you a list of users that completed the presentation, and a list
of those that didn't (by deduction).

You may also, if the user reading every word is important to you, enlist the
aid of the MS Agents to read the slides to the viewer. Personally, I hate
presenters that read the slides (even if they are electronic), and I feel it
would be better to have the agent summarize the slide, but it is your
presentation.

I never design a presentation for others that I would not want to sit
through, but you will do what you must.

B

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