Trigger automatic slide transition *after* a mouse click?

[Dawgma]

I want to set up a slide where I click to start an animation, and then the
slide transitions automatically to the next one.

Right now, if I have a series of animations on one slide that require clicks
to activate, and then I apply an automatic transition to the slide, suddenly
I can no longer click to make the animations happen. Instead they play
automatically one after another...

I need to be able to keep my mouse clicks, and then have the slide
transition automatically AFTER the final mouse click on the slide.

I DO NOT want to have my slide transition to animate "On mouse click". It
needs to be automatically after the last animation is activated on the slide.


Can this be done??

 

[Austin Myers]

My trick for this is to create an object, make it transparent, (or drag it
off the slide) and have it "appear" after the mouse click as the last
animation on the slide. You can of course set a time delay as needed. The
slide transion won't happen until the last animation completes.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Dawgma]

This dosn't work for me or I am not following your directions right.

I have a number of animations on my slide. Some are set to automatically
start "with", some are "after" and others are on "click".

As soon as I check off Slide Transition Automatically After 00sec. all of my
animations play after one anothers. At no point am I able to click or
control the presentation anymore.

art.

 

[Austin Myers]

Drop me an email and I'll send you a small (two slides) example presentation
that does what yoiu want. From it you should be able to apply the same
methodology to your presentation.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Austin Myers]

Art, should be in your in box. Let us know if this is what you had in mind.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Dawgma]

Thanks Austin.

I recieved the .ppt file and it does indeed do what you said. After
assigning an animation to the click of an object, the automatic transition of
the slide is put on hold until I clicked the object.

Unfortunately I misunderstood your answer and didn't realize your solution
involved an action trigger. Preferably I would have liked to do this without
the user having to search for an oject to click (even if I made the entire
background a clickable trigger, I don't like that the user would have to
wiggle the mouse until the pointer appears for them to click the background).

I realize it probably isn't possible to halt the automatic transition of the
slide without using your workaround. So thanks anyway.

//On a side note... I find PowerPoint is full of situations like these. It
comes so close to offering what the user wants, but fails in directly
delivering the feature. Instead, a workaround needs to be developed, and
it's usually at some expense of function or flow to the presentation. I hope
PP 2007 will be providing a lot of new features beyond graphical
enhancements. I've seen the program and right now there is hardly any new
animations, triggers, timeline tools, or options. All we have is a new UI,
and the ability to apply special effects to objects that can otherwise be
done in photoshop.

Do you happen to know if the Office team plans a major overhaul to the rest
of the interface before final release? Or is the Beta 2 version pretty much
full-featured?

cheers,

art.

 

[Austin Myers]

Not quite certain I understand what you want this to do. Advancing a slide
must be done on a timed basis, or on a user action. I mean how else would
powerpoint know when to advance? As good as it is, it doesn't read minds.
<g>

Give me a better idea of what your after and we'll see if we can't get you
there.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Austin Myers]

Just a follow up for those watching this thread.

I think we were able to solve Dawgma's issue. In this case the solution was
to use one additional slide. This is/was a case of trying to do to much on
a single slide. (Something I have been known to be guilty of myself.) The
moral? Slides are free, use as many as you need. <g>


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Dawgma]

This thread broke off into an email conversation between me and Austin as we
tried to figure out what was going on.

Ultimately Auston suggested that to create the illusion of an automatic
slide transition, while still maintaining control over your animations, you
have to use a series of slides.

The first slide contains the majority of the animations that you would like
to control, or click through. So you can set up your timings as usual
between animations. However, once you get to the last object or bulet point
that you would like to animate, you create that effect on the next slide. So
that when you click on the first slide, you make a seemless transition to the
second slide and it just looks like youve "animated on mouse click". This
second slide is set to autimatically transition to a third slide where the
rest of the animations play out.

Its complicated, yeah.. and highly specific. But I like to break up my
slides because if you put too many animations on one slide then it looks
cluttered and it is hard to edit. So by breaking it up you can see what your
doing a lot better, and it also giver you the chance to create nice
transitions or segways into other slides.

thanks again austin.

 

[Austin Myers]

thanks again austin.

Anytime! Glad it worked out for you.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com