PPT97 Hide on next mouse click

[wl28]

Hi guys,

I really have a big problem. I have created an important and long
presentation (it is a demo of a new system) but using PPT2000. The ppt
uses the basic effects of powerpoint like dissolve, appear, etc. and of
course the "Hide on next mouse click" option which is absolutely
indispensable when you are creating an animated presentation (with lots
of pictures).

This file is going to be send to all the people from my work. The
problem is that I forgot that there are like 100 users that still have
Office 97 on their computers. And today when I tried to load the
presentation on a PC with PPT97, the "Hide on next mouse click" was not
working.

My question is why? I'm seriously planning in buying me a gun, cause I
have been working on this presentation for 3 weeks and if I don't find
how to fix this, I will have to create it again (but this time in 1
day, cause I was supposed to send it this week)

But this is really incredible , cause PPT97 has exactly the
same option as PPT2000, I mean the "Hide on next mouse click", but it
doesn't work. I have tested only this option on a new blank
presentation (under PPT97) and it is still not working.

Please if someone knows how to fix this, I will really really
appreciate the help!

Thanks for your time,

Winston

 

[Shyam Pillai]

The behaviour actually changed in PPT2000. In 97 it was different which is
want you are experiencing
PPT2000: Hide on Next Mouse Click Happens on Next Animation Not on Next
Mouse Click
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=235622

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Regards
Shyam Pillai

Toolbox for PowerPoint
http://www.mvps.org/skp/toolbox

 

[B]

First things first, never handle a firearm when using PowerPoint. Could
give point & click a real shot in the arm, so to speak.

Anyway, why not build an auto-run CD that includes the new PowerPoint
viewer. This way, regardless of the version of Office they have installed
on their computer, the presentation will run as written. It will not be as
easy to share a CD as to zonk it across a network, but this may be a small
price for having it show correctly.
LINK:

PP 97 is very like PP 2000, but not the same. As with most software, PP is
downward compatible. It is also somewhat upward compatible, meaning it will
do what it can of the files written on higher versions.

B

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[wl28]

Hi, thanks for your replies...

I have been trying many things to solve this problem and i'm seriously
thinking in deploying only PP2000 for this users using SMS.

As we have SMS 2.0, we can use it to deploy this application. The only
problem is that I have never done this before, specially the
installation of only one of the applications inside the office suite.

I don't know if any of you guys have done this... But well, i think
this is going to be the best solution. Now i only need to find how
I have found a white paper about the whole office
installation using SMS, and also i have been reading the office
resource kit, but i don't see anything about installing only word or
powerpoint (in this case) yet.

Thanks anyway,

Winston

 

[Dave Yurchi]

Hi Shyam

I was hoping to find some answers, but instead all I found were others frustrated by the same problem that I myself encountered. I can only offer you the following work around

Using PowerPoint for Office '97, I created hunderds of complex animations that relied heavily on the "hide on next mouse click" command. When users began to work with Office 2000, the animations did not function. I was able to rectify the situation by telling Office 2000 users to download PowerPoint 97 viewer and use that for all files that use these types of animation

I would point out that PowerPoint 97 viewer does not support animated GIF or animated SWF files. However, it works better than watching your animations get all screwed up by this glitch

What strikes me as odd is that Microsoft has just released a new PowerPoint viewer that has perpetuated the "hide on next mouse click" problem. Isn't there abybody at Microsoft who is aware of this glitch? If not, how do we let them know

Redoing all these animations to eliminate the problem is feasible. It will be costly, time consuming, and will not yield the same kind of animation quality that the original animations entailed. A much simpler solution would be for Microsoft to FIX THE PROBLEM!!

Regards
Dav

----- wl28 wrote: ----

Hi guys

I really have a big problem. I have created an important and lon
presentation (it is a demo of a new system) but using PPT2000. The pp
uses the basic effects of powerpoint like dissolve, appear, etc. and o
course the "Hide on next mouse click" option which is absolutel
indispensable when you are creating an animated presentation (with lot
of pictures)

This file is going to be send to all the people from my work. Th
problem is that I forgot that there are like 100 users that still hav
Office 97 on their computers. And today when I tried to load th
presentation on a PC with PPT97, the "Hide on next mouse click" was no
working.

My question is why? I'm seriously planning in buying me a gun, cause
have been working on this presentation for 3 weeks and if I don't fin
how to fix this, I will have to create it again (but this time in
day, cause I was supposed to send it this week

But this is really incredible , cause PPT97 has exactly th
same option as PPT2000, I mean the "Hide on next mouse click", but i
doesn't work. I have tested only this option on a new blan
presentation (under PPT97) and it is still not working

Please if someone knows how to fix this, I will really reall
appreciate the help

Thanks for your time

Winsto

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

I understand your frustration with the "Hide on next mouse click" feature
over several versions of PowerPoint.

In the latest versions of PowerPoint (2002 and 2003) the option is there
only to provide backward compatibility with the PowerPoint 97 Viewer.

For people using the PowerPoint 2002/2003 or PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to
show/distribute their presentations, the expectation is that customers will
use the Exit and Emphasis animaition effects which give much more control
(than just hide or dim) after any other animation (not just previous
animation) and after any mouse click (not just the next mouse click).

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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