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Question re. use of animation rebuild VBA
Hello,
I am preparing a interactive ppt for use at a kiosk and would like to utilize the following VBA code into a macro in order to rebuild animation on previously viewed slides: Sub ResetSlide() ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number. SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide 1, msoTrue End Sub (Dumb) Q#1: Does the part of the code that says " ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number." stay in the code or is that just an instruction to the code user? Either way, does the (number) need to be changed for each situation? Q#2: Where does this macro get inserted? I do not want the user to have to take an action to rebuild the animation. I would like it done automatically so that whenever the slide is revisited, the animation will play. Example: The viewer views slide #3 and then navigates around to different slides using action buttons. Eventually the viewer (or a subsequent viewer) returns to slide #3 via another action button. Where is the macro installed? Can an action button both send a viewer to a particular location AND run the rebuild macro, or can the macro run automatically somehow after the slide plays? Any and all help would be most appreciated. Thanks! RJ |
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Question re. use of animation rebuild VBA
Hi,
(Dumb) Q#1: Does the part of the code that says " ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number." stay in the code or is that just an instruction to the code user? Either way, does the (number) need to be changed for each situation? The number will change based on the slide you want to go to. If you specify 1 it will go to the 1st slide and reset the animations on that slide. Q#2: Where does this macro get inserted? I do not want the user to have to take an action to rebuild the animation. I would like it done automatically so that whenever the slide is revisited, the animation will play. The macro gets inserted in a code module. The triggering mechanism would be either a shape with action setting set to run the macro or called from an event handler if you want it to be automatic. Example: The viewer views slide #3 and then navigates around to different slides using action buttons. Eventually the viewer (or a subsequent viewer) returns to slide #3 via another action button. Where is the macro installed? Can an action button both send a viewer to a particular location AND run the rebuild macro, or can the macro run automatically somehow after the slide plays? The macro is sending the user to the 1st slide and resetting the animation. I would recommend taking a non programmatic approach to reset the animation - place a dummy slide with auto slide transition of 0 seconds duration just before the slide with animation. Set the action setting to jump to the dummy slide. Anytime you enter into a slide the animations will be reset. -- Regards, Shyam Pillai Handout Wizard: http://skp.mvps.org/how. PowerPoint 2010 (32-bit/64-bit) versions supported. "RJ" wrote in message ... Hello, I am preparing a interactive ppt for use at a kiosk and would like to utilize the following VBA code into a macro in order to rebuild animation on previously viewed slides: Sub ResetSlide() ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number. SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide 1, msoTrue End Sub (Dumb) Q#1: Does the part of the code that says " ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number." stay in the code or is that just an instruction to the code user? Either way, does the (number) need to be changed for each situation? Q#2: Where does this macro get inserted? I do not want the user to have to take an action to rebuild the animation. I would like it done automatically so that whenever the slide is revisited, the animation will play. Example: The viewer views slide #3 and then navigates around to different slides using action buttons. Eventually the viewer (or a subsequent viewer) returns to slide #3 via another action button. Where is the macro installed? Can an action button both send a viewer to a particular location AND run the rebuild macro, or can the macro run automatically somehow after the slide plays? Any and all help would be most appreciated. Thanks! RJ |
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Question re. use of animation rebuild VBA
You might find this useful -
PPT2000: How to Use VBA Events to Reset Slide Builds http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276353 -- Regards, Shyam Pillai Handout Wizard: http://skp.mvps.org/how. PowerPoint 2010 (32-bit/64-bit) versions supported. "RJ" wrote in message ... Hello, I am preparing a interactive ppt for use at a kiosk and would like to utilize the following VBA code into a macro in order to rebuild animation on previously viewed slides: Sub ResetSlide() ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number. SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide 1, msoTrue End Sub (Dumb) Q#1: Does the part of the code that says " ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number." stay in the code or is that just an instruction to the code user? Either way, does the (number) need to be changed for each situation? Q#2: Where does this macro get inserted? I do not want the user to have to take an action to rebuild the animation. I would like it done automatically so that whenever the slide is revisited, the animation will play. Example: The viewer views slide #3 and then navigates around to different slides using action buttons. Eventually the viewer (or a subsequent viewer) returns to slide #3 via another action button. Where is the macro installed? Can an action button both send a viewer to a particular location AND run the rebuild macro, or can the macro run automatically somehow after the slide plays? Any and all help would be most appreciated. Thanks! RJ |
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Question re. use of animation rebuild VBA
Thank you. I have already tried the dummy slide to reset the animation, but
it only seemed to work once, which made me wonder if the 0:00 auto-advance on the dummy was itself an animation that could only be played once? -- RJ "Shyam Pillai" wrote: You might find this useful - PPT2000: How to Use VBA Events to Reset Slide Builds http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276353 -- Regards, Shyam Pillai Handout Wizard: http://skp.mvps.org/how. PowerPoint 2010 (32-bit/64-bit) versions supported. "RJ" wrote in message ... Hello, I am preparing a interactive ppt for use at a kiosk and would like to utilize the following VBA code into a macro in order to rebuild animation on previously viewed slides: Sub ResetSlide() ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number. SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide 1, msoTrue End Sub (Dumb) Q#1: Does the part of the code that says " ' The number after GotoSlide is the slide number." stay in the code or is that just an instruction to the code user? Either way, does the (number) need to be changed for each situation? Q#2: Where does this macro get inserted? I do not want the user to have to take an action to rebuild the animation. I would like it done automatically so that whenever the slide is revisited, the animation will play. Example: The viewer views slide #3 and then navigates around to different slides using action buttons. Eventually the viewer (or a subsequent viewer) returns to slide #3 via another action button. Where is the macro installed? Can an action button both send a viewer to a particular location AND run the rebuild macro, or can the macro run automatically somehow after the slide plays? Any and all help would be most appreciated. Thanks! RJ |
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Question re. use of animation rebuild VBA
The dummy slide should work multiple times. It would probably be the
best approach. If you are using VBA, to elaborate on Shyam's answer (which was exactly right)... #1 In VBA, a single quote in a line indicates a comment. Anything after the single quote is ignored by the computer. You can remove any comments, but they are helpful to the reader of the code (and, in your case, the modifier of the code). #2 If you are not using an event handler (which adds another level of complexity to this), then the code needs to go in a procedure which will be assigned to a button. Instead of having a regular hyperlink to a slide, you would have a the button that would have had the hyperlink link to the procedure that contains that code. --David On 5/4/10 8:43 PM, RJ wrote: Thank you. I have already tried the dummy slide to reset the animation, but it only seemed to work once, which made me wonder if the 0:00 auto-advance on the dummy was itself an animation that could only be played once? -- David M. Marcovitz Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland |
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Question re. use of animation rebuild VBA
Would it be possible to have code that would both return the slide and
rebuild the animation all in one action button and what would that code look like? -- RJ "David Marcovitz" wrote: The dummy slide should work multiple times. It would probably be the best approach. If you are using VBA, to elaborate on Shyam's answer (which was exactly right)... #1 In VBA, a single quote in a line indicates a comment. Anything after the single quote is ignored by the computer. You can remove any comments, but they are helpful to the reader of the code (and, in your case, the modifier of the code). #2 If you are not using an event handler (which adds another level of complexity to this), then the code needs to go in a procedure which will be assigned to a button. Instead of having a regular hyperlink to a slide, you would have a the button that would have had the hyperlink link to the procedure that contains that code. --David On 5/4/10 8:43 PM, RJ wrote: Thank you. I have already tried the dummy slide to reset the animation, but it only seemed to work once, which made me wonder if the 0:00 auto-advance on the dummy was itself an animation that could only be played once? -- David M. Marcovitz Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland . |
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Question re. use of animation rebuild VBA
Yes, now that I'm not looking at the original message, I'm not sure, but
I thought that was what the code was that you posted. The GotoSlide method has two parameters: the slide number to go to and whether or not to reset the animation on that slide. Something along the lines of: ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.GotoSlide 3, msoTrue says go to slide 3 and reset the animation (msoFalse would not reset the animation). --David On 5/5/10 11:57 AM, RJ wrote: Would it be possible to have code that would both return the slide and rebuild the animation all in one action button and what would that code look like? -- David M. Marcovitz Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland |
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Question re. use of animation rebuild VBA
Thanks very much David. You were very helpful.
-- RJ "David Marcovitz" wrote: Yes, now that I'm not looking at the original message, I'm not sure, but I thought that was what the code was that you posted. The GotoSlide method has two parameters: the slide number to go to and whether or not to reset the animation on that slide. Something along the lines of: ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.GotoSlide 3, msoTrue says go to slide 3 and reset the animation (msoFalse would not reset the animation). --David On 5/5/10 11:57 AM, RJ wrote: Would it be possible to have code that would both return the slide and rebuild the animation all in one action button and what would that code look like? -- David M. Marcovitz Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland . |
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