First slide does not advance automatically

[Steve]

I have advance automatically set. And I set this for all slides. However,
the first slide does not advance automatically. Once I manually advance the
first slide all the rest advance automatically.

Any idea how to correct this?

 

[Echo S]

Hm. Do you have background music playing in the presentation?

 

[John Wilson]

Auto transitions wait for animations to fiinish and also (unless you tell it
not to) videos, sounds etc to complete. Could that be the problem. Is there
something maybe on the Title master effecting slide 1?
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[Steve]

John, yes, I have sound playing. So how do I correct this? How do i tell it
not to wait?

 

[John Wilson]

Find the sound in custom animation and then go to effect options. Change the
stop playing option to "after x slides" (where x is the number of slides you
want the music to play for - probably all)
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist

 

[Steve]

Perfect! Nice troubleshooting. Many thanks. Boy, one of those esoteric
problems. Again, much appreciation for your response.

 

[John Wilson]

Glad tohelp Steve

Echo deserves some credit too as her post was the clue!

_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist

 

[Steve]

I followed John Wilson's suggestion and it worked perfect. John wanted me to
be sure to share the credit with Echo! Thank you!
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Glad to help Steve

Echo deserves some credit too as her post was the clue!

_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist

Hm. Do you have background music playing in the presentation?

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Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

I have advance automatically set. And I set this for all slides. However,
the first slide does not advance automatically. Once I manually advance
the
first slide all the rest advance automatically.

Any idea how to correct this?

 

[Echo S]

LOL! You guys are funny!

Glad to hear you got it working. Thanks for letting us know.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

I followed John Wilson's suggestion and it worked perfect. John wanted me
to
be sure to share the credit with Echo! Thank you!
--------------------------
Glad to help Steve

Echo deserves some credit too as her post was the clue!

_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist

Hm. Do you have background music playing in the presentation?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

I have advance automatically set. And I set this for all slides.
However,
the first slide does not advance automatically. Once I manually
advance
the
first slide all the rest advance automatically.

Any idea how to correct this?

 

[Hal wants to know where the answer is, i]

To advance slides, set the time, and click apply to all slides, apply button
very important, can be used for many actions, and if you want music to
continousy
play, open custom animation pane, double click sound animation,on the first
tabbput 999 in the stop playing box, hope this is clear. Hal

LOL! You guys are funny!

Glad to hear you got it working. Thanks for letting us know.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

I followed John Wilson's suggestion and it worked perfect. John wanted me
to
be sure to share the credit with Echo! Thank you!
--------------------------
Glad to help Steve

Echo deserves some credit too as her post was the clue!

_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist

Hm. Do you have background music playing in the presentation?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com


I have advance automatically set. And I set this for all slides.
However,
the first slide does not advance automatically. Once I manually
advance
the
first slide all the rest advance automatically.

Any idea how to correct this?