Controlling a presentation with joystick or keyboard commands

[Microsoft News Server]

I am trying to create a PowerPoint presentation to run in kiosk mode at a
museum. I obviously don't want visitors to have access to a keyboard, and I
would prefer not to use a trackball or mouse. I would like to put a row of
physical buttons next to the display so that visitors can press a button
corresponding to a topic of interest. These buttons will be seen by the
computer as joystick button inputs; or they could be mapped to keyboard keys
if necessary. The problem is getting PowerPoint to respond to joystick or
keyboard commands for navigation input during a presentation. Basically, I
need to jump to a particular slide when a particular key is pressed. My
guess is that this can be done through VB scripting, but I am not sure
exactly how. I tried using the Accelerator property of a VB command button,
but PowerPoint does not seem to recognize the Accelerator command button
property. Any help that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Chirag]

Take a look at "Shortcuts for PowerPoint" add-in at
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppshortcuts/ppshortcuts.html - it allows you to
define keyboard shortcuts to a lot of routines. These shortcuts work even
when the slide show is setup in Kiosk mode where the keyboard is locked out.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html