Playing sounds automatically every time a slide is vewed

[Silverthim]

I have made an interactive Power Point presentation which includes a "try
again" slide when a question is answered incorrectly. I added sound to the
slide, and it play automatically the first time the slide is viewed in a
show, but only plays if clicked on subsequent viewings. Is there a way that
I can get it to play automatically every time the slide is viewed?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

The trick to this, Silver, is to create a blank slide immediately before the
one you want to link back to. Set it to auto transition in 0:00 seconds and
link to this slide instead of the 'try again' slide.

PowerPoint re-sets the animations (including auto sounds) only when a slide
is advanced into, not when it is re-viewed.

Post back if this isn't clear or we can help with something else.


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[Silverthim]

I tried this suggestion and it solved the problem with the sounds but it
created a new problem. The "try again" slide has a button that is supposed
to send the viewer back to the question to, of course, try it again. Because
of the blank slide with the 0:00 transition, it just keeps looping back to
itself instead of back to the slide viewed prior to the blank one. I could
loop back to a specific slide, but then I couldn't use the "try again" slide
more than once. There is no option I can find to loop back to the "second to
the last slide" so I am uncertain how to resolve this.

Of course, if there is no way to do this, I can manually include separte
"try again" slides for each question, but I'd like to learn an easier way.
Can anyone help?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Navigation like this will require vba. Is using VBA, with all its limits,
an option?


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
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[Silverthim]

Sorry to be ignorant, but what is VBA?

Navigation like this will require vba. Is using VBA, with all its limits,
an option?


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
..

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Visual Basic for Applications = VBA

(background sound:evil chuckle) ~~Welcome to the dark side.~~

It is a programming language that allows you to do things that PowerPoint
was not designed to do. Look here for some starters.
**Where can I learn more about VBA programming in PowerPoint?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00032.htm


Note than VBA has some important limits. It does not work in the viewer, or
if a user has their Macro security set to high or very high, or if it was
not installed. Therefore, it should not be used for presentations that will
be distributed.


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
..