Wow, a new addition to our lexicon: Picket Fencing. I love it!




"Bill Dilworth" wrote in message
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You were close to the solution ...

Make sure the presentation is set to loop until escape.

Make slide 1 unhidden then hide all the other content slides

Set the auto advance on all slides (except the first to 1:00)
Add a blank slide between slide 2 & 3
Make it autoadvance in 0:00 seconds
Copy this slide between EACH of your other slides

What will happen now is that any slide left on the screen for more than 1
minute will advance to the next slide. The next slide is an auto-advance
slide that will automatically skip to the next UNHIDDEN slide (which is
also a blank auto-advance slide) and so on along the tops of the blank
slides until it reaches the end of the presentation and loops back to the
start slide.

I mentioned this technique a few years ago calling it Picket Fencing
(because of the alternating nature of it). I should probably do a web
page on it.

Bill Dilworth


"Matthew" wrote in message
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I'm using PowerPoint 2007 to develop a basic touch screen information
kiosk.

Users advance through the slides in a non-linear order, I've used
hyperlinks
to other slides when they touch the screen.

I want my presentation to return the the first slide after a period of
inactivity. This means that if a user wanders off after getting the
information they need the presentation resets itself. I thought this
would
be doable by using hidden slides for everything except my first slide and
then simply saying advance after a set period, thus advancing to the only
unhidden slide... This doesn't work the presentation simply continues
through
the hidden slides.

Any ideas of how to solve this would be great.

TIA