Backward slide with right click remote

[firewater88]

Hi, I use Powerpoint to run many presentations in a theatre venue and
have always used the Windows version of Powerpoint. I recently got a
new Mac Pro for doing presentations and I like to use the Mac side of
the dual boot, rather than Windows (yea those commercials really are
true) . I am used to working with Office 2003 (Win) here and recently
installed Mac Office 2004.

My question is this, is it possible to use the right click of a remote
mouse (Gyration) to advance BACKWARD a slide if the presenter gets
ahead by mistake? I know this is an option on the Windows side and I
have not seen this option on the Mac side. The setup is the computer
is located at the control section and the presenter is then on stage
doing the presentation. I can give him a feed of the presenters
monitor if he requests it, but not the computer itself. Without the
back advance via right click it would interupt the flow of the
presentation as he would have to ask me to manually back the slide up.
Not good for some presenters.

Any thoughts? is this an option in the new Office Mac 2008? Did I just
buy too early?

Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi, I use Powerpoint to run many presentations in a theatre venue and
have always used the Windows version of Powerpoint. I recently got a
new Mac Pro for doing presentations and I like to use the Mac side of
the dual boot, rather than Windows (yea those commercials really are
true) . I am used to working with Office 2003 (Win) here and recently
installed Mac Office 2004.

My question is this, is it possible to use the right click of a remote
mouse (Gyration) to advance BACKWARD a slide if the presenter gets
ahead by mistake? I know this is an option on the Windows side and I
have not seen this option on the Mac side. The setup is the computer
is located at the control section and the presenter is then on stage
doing the presentation. I can give him a feed of the presenters
monitor if he requests it, but not the computer itself. Without the
back advance via right click it would interupt the flow of the
presentation as he would have to ask me to manually back the slide up.
Not good for some presenters.

Any thoughts? is this an option in the new Office Mac 2008? Did I just
buy too early?

Too early to ask. <g>

In the Preferences dialog box, you can tell PPT to show a navigator instead of
the popup dialog box and use that to navigate with, but it appears on screen
... not quite as nice a solution as allowing a click to do the job.

One trick we've used a couple times in similar situations is to pop two
rectangles on each slide, one filling the right side, one filling the left.
Assign the right side a Next Slide action, the left side a Previous Slide.
Fill both rectangles but make them 99% transparent.

If you put the rectangles on the slide master, they'll work on each slide and
any links on the slides will also work.



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