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Old April 28th, 2005, 03:59 AM
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Hi Steve,

Thanks for the suggstion.

Its still the same question. Just need a better result.

Its also a logical progression in learning about Power Point and its
limitations.

Its no longer about basic Power Point features.
As in "Here is Power Point presentation on my summer vacation."
Including some pics and cool animations etc.

Its more about offering a bit more professional navigation than just
play, exit, forward, and previous slides.
As in "On the 30th of June we visited Carlsbad Caverns. Click here to
take the sub-tour of Carlsbad. You can return here whenever your
ready."
More of a pop-up / drill-down approach.

Now it could be that a better approach is to have a master slide which
contains a header index for all slides. Similar to a web page header
which indexes the other areas of a web site.

We've discussed VBA. But as proven VBA will not work in the PPB (power
point browser).

Perhaps there is an add-on which will assist in more navigational
control.
Or perhaps there is a third party product.
Or perhaps there is a better way in VB6.

So with this in mind:

I'd like to drill down to another more detailed slide then return when
ready.

Any suggestions as how to do this the best way?

Thanks,
Baz


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Old April 28th, 2005, 05:19 AM
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I must be missing something.. Why not just do this with nested menus as was
suggested by Fiona? You can create a menu with the main topic buttons, each
of which is hyperlinked to the correct custom show or external file. The
file or show runs and when it finishes you return to the main menu. If you
need to take sidelines from individual slides, then you put buttons on those
slides with the individual links.
If you really want to get snazzy, you put the section navigation buttons
down one side or the other of the master and they show on every slide.

I guess what I am missing is why not do this with PPT's hyperlinking and
custom show abilities instead of trying to do this through code?

Now for Kathy's bias - If you are creating a web site, you are using the
wrong tool. If you are creating an informational series of slides that will
be delivered via the web, then your links and buttons should be
self-explanatory (in other words, the buttons should be labeled so well that
they can't be mistaken.) I know that you can deliver this kind of
information via the web, but I really don't recommend it.

Just my two cents.....

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wrote in message ...

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the suggstion.

Its still the same question. Just need a better result.

Its also a logical progression in learning about Power Point and its
limitations.

Its no longer about basic Power Point features.
As in "Here is Power Point presentation on my summer vacation."
Including some pics and cool animations etc.

Its more about offering a bit more professional navigation than just
play, exit, forward, and previous slides.
As in "On the 30th of June we visited Carlsbad Caverns. Click here to
take the sub-tour of Carlsbad. You can return here whenever your
ready."
More of a pop-up / drill-down approach.

Now it could be that a better approach is to have a master slide which
contains a header index for all slides. Similar to a web page header
which indexes the other areas of a web site.

We've discussed VBA. But as proven VBA will not work in the PPB (power
point browser).

Perhaps there is an add-on which will assist in more navigational
control.
Or perhaps there is a third party product.
Or perhaps there is a better way in VB6.

So with this in mind:

I'd like to drill down to another more detailed slide then return when
ready.

Any suggestions as how to do this the best way?

Thanks,
Baz


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Old April 28th, 2005, 06:50 PM
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wrote:
Hi Steve,

Thanks for the suggstion.

Its still the same question. Just need a better result.

Its also a logical progression in learning about Power Point and its
limitations.

Its no longer about basic Power Point features.
As in "Here is Power Point presentation on my summer vacation."
Including some pics and cool animations etc.

Its more about offering a bit more professional navigation than just
play, exit, forward, and previous slides.
As in "On the 30th of June we visited Carlsbad Caverns. Click here to
take the sub-tour of Carlsbad. You can return here whenever your
ready."
More of a pop-up / drill-down approach.

Now it could be that a better approach is to have a master slide which
contains a header index for all slides. Similar to a web page header
which indexes the other areas of a web site.

We've discussed VBA. But as proven VBA will not work in the PPB (power
point browser).


This is what I was talking about. Where does the browser come into the
picture?

This is what I meant when I asked you to describe the environment in which this
needs to run. There's a world of difference between running a presentation or
set of them on a local computer in PPT and running it on a web server, in a
browser, whatever.

We've already done the wheelspinning thing once. Let's not go there again. ;-)


Perhaps there is an add-on which will assist in more navigational
control.
Or perhaps there is a third party product.
Or perhaps there is a better way in VB6.

So with this in mind:

I'd like to drill down to another more detailed slide then return when
ready.

Any suggestions as how to do this the best way?

Thanks,
Baz


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