How to transition on 'navigation' click to a specific slide?

[David S]

I have developed a user operated slide show - a learning program -with
animation and next slide progression through clickc. Action buttons allow to
divert to a series of small supplementary subject presentations. How do I
return to the main theme slide once the animations ( all on clicks) have
finished on the subject presentations? I have an action button appear 'Go
Back', but what if they just do a navigation click one more time instead? At
the moment if they do that it proceeds to a different subject slide, not back
to the theme, and they are lost!!!

Any ideas?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Probably, the easiest thing to do is put the supplementary presentations in
custom shows. When you link to the custom shows, be sure to check the Show
and Return box. That way, when the custom show is finished, it will
automatically go back to where they came from.
--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/

 

[John Wilson]

Another vote for Custom Shows. Have a look at "Using custom shows" on this page
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk

 

[David S]

Great! Thanks for this. I am so hung up on using action buttons I didn't
realize about this.

How can I go about it - I want to start the custom show on choosing an
action button (Say on main Slide 1). That takes me to slides A,B,C and then I
want to go back to A.

So, do I set up the Custom show to include slides A,B,C and then 1? Have I
got that right

 

[David S]

Thank you David
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David S

Probably, the easiest thing to do is put the supplementary presentations in
custom shows. When you link to the custom shows, be sure to check the Show
and Return box. That way, when the custom show is finished, it will
automatically go back to where they came from.
--David

--
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/

 

[David S]

Thank you John

The PPTAlchemy article spells it out very clearly.

Shows you - sometimes the simplest way is the best. Now to tidy up all 9
technical presentations - I'd tried to do them with only action buttons- this
should impress my client!