preventing slide advance during audio playback

[bitterphile]

I have been creating audio books for my son in Powerpoint--he advances a
slide and an embedded mp3 reads the page to him. My problem is that if he
advances again (too soon), the sound will stop and will advance to the next
slide before finishing the audio. Is there any way to prevent powerpoint
from advancing until after the audio file has finished playing? I've tried a
variety of solutions and am stumped.
Any suggestions much appreciated!

 

[Austin Myers]

Set the slide to transition automatically and un-tick advance on mouse
click.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[bitterphile]

Yes, that would work, except that for the slide to transition automatically,
you must also specify a time (e.g., Automatically after: 3 seconds). And
since each page is of different duration, times can range from 2 seconds to
20 seconds. I could record the amount of time it takes for each page and
enter those times; however, I have over twenty books completed now which
would require days of timings. I was hoping for a global solution (if one
exists). Thanks for the quick input.

 

[Austin Myers]

Actually no, set the transition after X seconds to something LESS than the
length of the audio file. The transition won't fire until the audio file is
complete and then will immediately advance to the next slide. Globally you
might set all transition times to say 2 seconds and un-tick the mouse
advance and then click Apply to All.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Ute Simon]

I have been creating audio books for my son in Powerpoint--he advances a

slide and an embedded mp3 reads the page to him. My problem is that if he
advances again (too soon), the sound will stop and will advance to the
next
slide before finishing the audio. Is there any way to prevent powerpoint
from advancing until after the audio file has finished playing? I've
tried a
variety of solutions and am stumped.
Any suggestions much appreciated!

Use Slideshow - Set up show to set your presentations to kiosk mode. So the
viewer cannot advance slides with mouse clicks or arrow keys, but with
hyperlinks only. Insert an interactive button with an action setting to
advance to next slide. Animate this button to appear after previous. Make
sure, that this is the last animation in the list. So the button to advance
the slide will not be there while the audio is playing. You can simply copy
this button to all other slides.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[bitterphile]

Ute,
Kiosk mode was the key solution. That prevented him from advancing slides
with mouse clicks before audio was finished. One other problem however, is
that he has visual impairment, and cannot navigate a mouse to click on a
button for advancement. To solve this problem, I created a large transparent
box (full screen) that appeared after the audio finished. I have a button
box that can be assigned to any key (or mouse click) that he operates. So
now, after the audio is finished, he simply pushes the button (activating a
mouse click) at his leisure, and the slide advances to the next. Perfect!
Vielen dank!
Bitterphile