Slides Not Resetting on re-enter

[neal.mazer]

Hello all,

I have a powerpoint (Office 2000) presentation running on Win2K. I have
slides with transparent text areas with Actions that take user to
specific slides.

This way the presentation responds like the application it is the
tutorial for.

Each slide can have multiple text boxes that I've set custom animation
so that text boxes appear and disappear for readability.

The problem:
If a user has visited a slide and read a one or more of these text
boxes, leaves the slide and returns, the slide shows the last text box
the use was reading rather than start with the first text box in the
"Order and Timing" sequence.

I was thinking that if there was a slide "on enter" event I could put
some code in to refresh the slide. Or maybe, instead of just going to
a particular slide, as an action, I could use code (or macro?) to go to
a slide and refresh it. I found an example snippet that refers to
something like: "SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide". Using the slide
index seems like a problem if I add or delete a slide.

Do either of these ideas make sense or is there a better way?

TIA,
Neal

 

[Bill Foley]

Put a blank slide in front of the desired slide, set it's Slide Transition
to "automatically" after "0" seconds, and link back to the blank slide.
This sends you to the desired slide at the "beginning" of the slide. The
normal setting is to return to the "end" of a slide, so this trick fixes
that problem.

 

[neal.mazer]

Bill,

Thank you very much for your reply. I will try it right away.

Neal

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

What Bill said is probably the easiest thing, but if you want to do it by
code, you can:

ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.GotoSlide 1, True

This will go to the first slide (change 1 to something else if you want a
different slide). The True resets the slide like you want.

Now, to solve the problem of changing the slide order, you can:

theSlideIndex = ActivePresentation.Slides("FunkyTown").SlideIndex
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.GotoSlide theSlideIndex, True

This will take you to FunkyTown as long as you have named one of your
slides FunkyTown. To name a slide, you need the code from Example 8.7 at
my site:

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

But if your not using code for anything else, the blank slide before the
animated slide is going to be easier.

--David
--
David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

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