Hidden Slides- They are showing

[elpada]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Ok, I'm getting confused and frustrated. I have a PPTX presentation created in PPT 2008. I have several hidden slides that don't seem to want to be hidden if they are in the front of the presentation. If i open the same presentation under parallels the hidden slides in the front of the presentation don't show.

I.e. The first slide is hidden. It shows in ppt 2008. It does not show if the exact same file is opened under ppt 2003 under parallels. Thoughts? Also if i move the slides to the back of the 2008 presentation they stay hidden, but not if i move them up to the front again.

 

[David Marcovitz]

I just reproduced this. It looks like a bug to me. I did a little more
testing. I created a custom show with all my slides, and set my show to just
run the custom show. I got the same results. It gets weirder when I link to
the custom show. If I link to a custom show with the first slide set to
hidden, it flashes the second slide and then jumps to the hidden slide. If
the hidden slide isn't the first slide in the custom show, it behaves
normally.
--David

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Ok, I'm getting confused and frustrated. I have a PPTX presentation created in
PPT 2008. I have several hidden slides that don't seem to want to be hidden if
they are in the front of the presentation. If i open the same presentation
under parallels the hidden slides in the front of the presentation don't show.

I.e. The first slide is hidden. It shows in ppt 2008. It does not show if the
exact same file is opened under ppt 2003 under parallels. Thoughts? Also if i
move the slides to the back of the 2008 presentation they stay hidden, but not
if i move them up to the front again.

--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Iggles14]

The bigger question is ... why would you want hidden slides at the beginning of a presentation?

 

[David Marcovitz]

The bigger question is ... why would you want hidden slides at the beginning
of a presentation?

I can imagine a number of reasons why you would want this. It really depends
on why you are hiding the slides. If the slides are hidden so you can have a
secret link to them, I suppose you probably wouldn't. No, I take that back,
I can imagine a slide show where you will run the show through more than
once. The second time through, you want to see some additional slides at the
beginning of the presentation (picture an announcer saying, "Now, let's see
that again"). Or, perhaps, you have created a presentation, and sometimes
you want to show one first slide and sometimes you want to show another
(let's say I present to Boy Scouts troops and Girl Scouts troops, so for one
group I want a slide that says "Greetings, Girls" and for the other group I
want a slide that says "Greetings, Boys"). I might want to simply hide the
wrong title slide before I go to give my presentation. Of course, there are
ways to do each of these things (and just about anything else for which you
might want to hide the first slide(s)), but it seems that if the first slide
is hidden, it shouldn't show unless I link directly to it.

By the way, I checked this out in PowerPoint 2004 (Mac) and PowerPoint 2003
(Windows). It works the same in 2004 (showing the first slide even if it is
hidden), but it works as I would expect in 2003 (not showing the first slide
if it is hidden).

--David
--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[elpada]

Iggles14-
I knew someone would ask, but its just about the same reason as described above. I create presentations for other attorney's in my office and invariably i end up having to go backwards to what i created when their ideas don't work. I just keep the slides in order and hide as necessary.

David-
I didn't check 2004, i've only used it a couple of times, but thanks for being thorough. I'm happy someone was able to replicate it. I'll provide feedback to MS.

thanks,