Hidden Slides in Power Point

[Richard Hammonds]

I have several hidden slides in my presentation, with
hyperlinks from unhidden slides that point to hidden ones.
Once I display a hidden slide, on my next page down, I
would like the next unhidden slide to appear, but for some
reason the next hidden one appears. Am I doing something
wrong?

 

[Troy @ TLC]

Nothing wrong. That is the way PowerPoint is programmed. If you manually go
to a hidden slide, you will continue to see any hidden slides immediately
after it - until you go to a non-hidden slide. One solution is to add a
blank slide after each hidden slide and set the slide transition to
automatically advance in 0 seconds. This way going from your hidden slide
PPT sees a non-hidden slide and jumps past any additional hidden slides.

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Richard,
A sneaky trick: Instead of linking directly to the hidden slide, create a
custom show that contains the hidden slide (Slide show --> Custom Show).
When you create your hyperlink, link to the custom show instead of the slide
and check "Show and return". This should do what you want.

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[Richard Hammonds]

This works perfectly...Thank you SO much. One question--do
I still leave the hidden slides in my main presentation or
is there a more logical place to put them.
Richard

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

My opinion: Leave them in the main presentation. Makes it easier to do the
custom shows. Others may feel otherwise.

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[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality (option to control behavior
when advancing from a hidden slide), don't forget to send your feedback (in
YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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