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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 |
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Try making the entire presentation (except the first slide) a custom show
(Slide Show Custom Show). Then make a rectangle on the hidden slide, then InsertActionMouse OverHyperlink it to End Show. This will make the rest of the presentation open in a second windows above the home PowerPoint, and the hidden slide will close that second window. I like your idea on having the presentation go back on inactivity! B) -- If you would like extra help, (I''m best at PowerPoint) you can contact me on Hotmail under the same username. "Matthew" wrote: 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 |
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Matthew, what a great challenge you have given us! I can get you part of the
way home, but I can't get past a particular hurdle here. I don't think it matters whether you hyperlink to custom shows or to particular hidden slides; either way, I can get you to that halfway point. The key is this: 1. From Slide Show | Set up show, tell PowerPoint that the only slide in the show that you want to run is the first slide. Either create a custom show of that one slide or just define the range as From 1 to 1. 2. Check Loop Continuously until Esc. That tells PowerPoint to return to the beginning when it is done -- and "done" is defined as either finishing a custom show that you link to, or advancing to the next slide, only to find that they are all hidden, it gets to the end, and it starts over at the first slide. The part that I cannot overcome is the period of inactivity part, and how that is defined. It is trivial to set the slide to advance on its own, but PowerPoint isn't smart enough to know, say, that there might be a lot of text on that slide to read and so it should wait longer before advancing back. PowerPoint doesn't understand the concept of inactivity, so you will have to program that on each slide, by way of hidden objects that have lengthy delays before their turn in the animation scheme (after which PowerPoint will see that the slide's business is done and will advance). I'd love for you to keep us posted on how you tackle this... -- Rick Altman PowerPoint Live Oct 11-14, 2009 | Atlanta GA http://www.betterpresenting.com "Matthew" wrote in message ... 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 |
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This is what Kiosk mode is supposed to do. It has had problems in
various versions of PowerPoint, but the theory is that any presentation in kiosk mode will automatically return to the first slide after 5 minutes of inactivity. I don't know if that feature has problems (or if it was removed) in 2007, but it is supposed to work that way. --David -- David Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ In article , Matthew wrote: 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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Wow, a new addition to our lexicon: Picket Fencing. I love it!
"Bill Dilworth" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 |
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Clever!
-- john ATSIGN PPTAlchemy.co.uk Custom vba coding and PPT Makeovers Free PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoi...tutorials.html "Bill Dilworth" wrote: 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 ... 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 |
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