Disabling keyboard for one slide

[Bob Cook]

Hi,

I'm building a slide show that has several slides which have 4 pictures on
each slide. After showing the first slide showing the four pictures (say
slide 4), the idea is that the following four slides highlight each picture
automatically in turn (ie slides 5,6,7 and 8). At the end of this highlight
process (ie when slide 8 is showing) I want the user to hit a action button
to go to the next slide (which could be say slide 12). I'll do this by using
a hyperlink on the button.

The problem is that the user can press a keyboard key e.g. the space bar
when slide 8 is showing and the program will advance to the NEXT slide in the
list (slide 9), which is not what I want.

Is there some way to disable the keyboard for only one slide? yet still
allow the mouse to click on an action button.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Unfortunately no.

If you set the advance to uncheck the on mouse click, the keyboard still
works.

If you hyperlink to a presentation that has Kiosk mode set, it maintains the
properties of the linking show.

Your best bet might be to do all the navigation via buttons, and set the
whole presentation to kiosk mode.


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[Bob Cook]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately I want the user to be able to use the keyboard for the
remainder of the presentation. This is mostly for convenience so that he/she
does not have to aim the mouse cursor at a button each time to advance most
of the slides (there will be >500 slides in this presentation)

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Depending on exactly what you are doing, here is an idea that might help:

Make the following slides hidden, so the space bar will skip them. That
is, if slides 9, 10, and 11 are hidden, a spacebar on slide 8 will jump
to slide 12. A hyperlink to slide 9 will get you there even if it is
hidden, but the spacebar won't.

Otherwise, I bet there is some nifty solution with custom shows that
might do the trick as well.

--David

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Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
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[Bob Cook]

FANTASTIC !! YOU BEAUTY !! You have solved my problem.

Thanks for your input.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

I'm glad I could help. Thanks for letting us know that it worked.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/