Problems related to automatic slide advance

[CraigFSA]

I'm using Powepoint from Office 2004 for the Mac. I'm creating a
powerpoint presentation made to be a self-running show. Each slide also
has a sound file to provide narration.

For some reason, I'm having a problem with my first slide. At one
point, the slide's narration (sound file) stops before it has completed
and the remaining animated objects all just appear at once rather than
displaying with their assigned effects and timings. I thought maybe the
automatic slide advance was just set to advance too soon and cutting
everything off, but that isn't the case. If I add more time to the
setting for the automatic advance, the audio still stops and the
animated objects still don't display correctly, I just have a longer
gap before the presentation advances to the next slide.

I have found, though, that if I set the slide to advance by mouse click
only and not automatically, then everything plays correctly. But since
this is a self-running show, I don't want the viewer to have to click
to advance that one slide. All the other slides in my presentation
advance automatically without any problems.

Have you ever come across anything like this? I'd appreciate any advice
you could offer. Thanks.

 

[Michael Koerner]

I'm sure that someone here can answer your question. But, you'd be better
off asking this in the Mac PowerPoint news group.

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| I'm using Powepoint from Office 2004 for the Mac. I'm creating a
| powerpoint presentation made to be a self-running show. Each slide also
| has a sound file to provide narration.
|
| For some reason, I'm having a problem with my first slide. At one
| point, the slide's narration (sound file) stops before it has completed
| and the remaining animated objects all just appear at once rather than
| displaying with their assigned effects and timings. I thought maybe the
| automatic slide advance was just set to advance too soon and cutting
| everything off, but that isn't the case. If I add more time to the
| setting for the automatic advance, the audio still stops and the
| animated objects still don't display correctly, I just have a longer
| gap before the presentation advances to the next slide.
|
| I have found, though, that if I set the slide to advance by mouse click
| only and not automatically, then everything plays correctly. But since
| this is a self-running show, I don't want the viewer to have to click
| to advance that one slide. All the other slides in my presentation
| advance automatically without any problems.
|
| Have you ever come across anything like this? I'd appreciate any advice
| you could offer. Thanks.
|

 

[CraigFSA]

Thanks. I didn't realize there was a separate mac group. I'll try that.

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

Hi Craig,

I run into that often - the best way to get over that is to:

1. Go to Slide Sorter view, and delete all slides except the problem slide.
Save it to another nam like temp.ppt in the same folder.

2. Set all animations to on mouse click.

3. Choose Slide Show / Rehearse Timings and click the spacebar whenever you
want the next object to animate.

4. Save your single slide presentation.

5. Go back to the original presentation, and insert the single slide.