Slides Don't Advance on Mouse Click

[Ron]

Hi,

My company produces PowerPoint slide shows to accompany medical
lectures. I serve as one of two graphic artists to take the speaker's
original materials (often a dizzying hodgepodge of crude slides) and
bring them into conformity with my organization's style.

Although we all know that the person running the slide show from the
computer can advance slides in several ways, our in-house protocol
calls for us to check that all slides advance on the click of a mouse.
This would seem like a no-brainer. But I often find slides in our
PowerPoint files that will not budge when the mouse is clicked. Our
project managers require the graphic artists to "fix" these slides.

I've been unable to find this quirk addressed anywhere in Microsoft's
online tutorials. The best work-around I've devised entails creating a
blank slide just after the "stuck" frame, then copying all the text and
graphics to it before deleting the offending slide. This seems to work,
and when a slide set of, say, 50 slides has only 2 or 3 stuck frames,
this is manageable. This past week, however, I found a PowerPoint file
in which more than 30 slides were stuck in this way. We decided the
time involved in employing my cut-and-paste work-around was not worth
it.

There must be a better way of addressing this. Has anybody else
encountered this anomaly? Suggestions?

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Ron -

Forgive me if you've already done this, but the first place I would look is
in Slide Show>Slide Transition & make sure there is a check for On Mouse
Click, then 'Apply to All'. If that isn't the fix come back and share as
much additional detail as you can incl. versions & OS info.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Ben]

Similarly,

we are experiencing stuck slides

two cases:

1. once a slide has run an animation sequence, it will not rerun the
sequence when revisited - so kiosking is out. and no the rewind on end
options have no effect.

2. when combining controls (ie textboxes) on a slide along with pretty
buttons (ie images with actions) rather than the cartoon style buttons
MS came up with those buttons will not respond on the first click -
only the second, as if "Focus" id being held by the controls, and only
transferred to the "Slide" on the first click.

we are ready to junk powerpoint for this interactive project - is there
any hope?

Ben