Shutting off the "Click" when using action buttons

[Heather]

I want to be able to set up self-run presentations where the participant has
to use the action buttons that are placed in the program. I don't want them
to be able to just "click" to advance the slides, because some of the slides
go to different places depending on the action button that they choose (Think
of the Choose Your own Adventure books from years ago). Is this even
possible?

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Go to SLIDE SHOW >> SETUP SHOW >> turn on the kiosk mode. This diabled the
click-to-advance and will only advance with a hyperlink.

 

[john wilson]

Bear in mind that disabling the click will also disable any click generated
animations. If there are any you will need to set up trigger buttons to
initiate them. If anyone can tell me how to stop advance on click but keep
click animations - Please do!

 

[Karen]

Hi Heather,

I had to chuckle at this, because I always used to cheat as a kid, and
would read ahead to ALL the eventual outcomes in those "Choose Your Own
Adventure" books before I would finally settle on a single scenario.
There was nothing at the time to stop me from flipping ahead in the
pages of the book (even though I still knew it was cheating!) LOL

As John mentioned, I also wonder whether this is an available security
feature of PowerPoint...because in my mind, it sure sounds like it
might NEED to be a security feature (especially for bratty students
like me).

Best of luck with this! Hopefully a PowerPoint expert will have a
solution for you, and if they do, I would love to learn about the
solution as well.

Regards,
Karen

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

While we're on the topic of "Choose Your Own Adventure." I wrote a
PowerPoint one for my daughter. It is actually set to randomly choose an
"adventure" for you, rather than letting you choose, but it could easily
be set up to choose your own. I learned that this kind of story is VERY
difficult to write. The technical part was the easiest part for me.
Following 100 different story lines was the hard part. You can see my
example at:

http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

Click on more tricks and look for Trick #7. There are simple instructions
to use what I have done to write your own. Just remember that these
stories are hard to write.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/