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[LoriR]

I have a brief PowerPoint slide show that I would like to set up to play at a
booth. Since it has music, I do not want it to continuously loop as I think
the music will drive everyone crazy if it play continuously for 2 hours. I
would like to set up the slide show with an action button on the final screen
which would restart the slide show only when needed. I have tried to
hyperlink the action button to the power point file. This works for the
first time through, however when I click on it the next time through, it only
takes me to the first slide. The whole slide show will not run again. Does
anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Are you linking from the end of the slide show to the file or to the first
slide. If it is all one file, you should be linking within the presentation.
You might want to check out the PowerPoint Linking and Looping tutorials
referenced at this site:

http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtutorials.htm

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[LoriR]

Thank you so much! You have no idea how much time I have spent trying to
figure this out. I solved the problem by looping the show, however I put in
an "introductory" slide at the beginning of my slide show. I then set the
slide transition to "on mouse click" for this slide only. Once the viewer
clicks on the introductory slide, it starts the slide show. At the
completion of the show, the looping takes the viewer back to the introductory
slide where the slide show is paused until the next viewer clicks on the
introductory slide, and the show begins again.

Thanks again!

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Glad we could help. I always enjoy having 30 seconds of my time save
hours of your time.
--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.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/