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Erik Berglund - 28 Sep 2004 10:24 GMT

This is what I want to do:
* Start a movie after lets say 5 second unless I move forward to the
next slide using Next or mouse clicking.
(* optional extra: put the movie in the slide master and get the
effect on every page)

versions: PowerPoint 2000, 2002

I set the timeings and it starts correctly. But, as I move ahead using
Next or clicking the mouse to go to the next slide before the movie is
triggered the movie still starts. Yes, the movie is set to do nothing
on mouse click and mouse over. Yes the custom animation is set only to
respond as a timed event.

How can I get around this strange behaviour?

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JohnThePresenter - 28 Sep 2004 11:19 GMT

One way round this is to put in your own explicit slide advance with your own
"Next Slide" button, linking to the next slide as a hyperlink. For example,
create a shape, then [Right Mouse Menu]-[Insert Hyperlink] and use "Place in
this document", selecting "Next Slide".

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Erik Berglund - 01 Oct 2004 15:53 GMT

> One way round this is to put in your own explicit slide advance with your own
> "Next Slide" button, linking to the next slide as a hyperlink. For example,
> create a shape, then [Right Mouse Menu]-[Insert Hyperlink] and use "Place in
> this document", selecting "Next Slide".

Yes that would be a workaround.

However, I would really like not to. That sort of defetes the purpose
of setting the move to start only on timings.

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Adam Crowley - 02 Oct 2004 20:02 GMT

I think you're misunderstanding how PowerPoint handles object animations.
When you apply an animation to an object you're just adding it to a list of
triggered events that will happen before the slide moves on to the next.
This is true whether you specify a time or a click.
It's certainly not a bug and is consistent with the way PowerPoint handles
all object animations, which makes sense for most situations, though I can
see why you might want it to behave otherwise.

> > One way round this is to put in your own explicit slide advance with your own
> > "Next Slide" button, linking to the next slide as a hyperlink. For example,
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> However, I would really like not to. That sort of defetes the purpose
> of setting the move to start only on timings.

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Erik Berglund - 05 Oct 2004 11:47 GMT

When I look at the setings, it is true that there is no way to disable
the triggering of a page click (the next event sort of...) just the
shape-click.

However, I could get around these thins though an add-in. I have
looked through the VBA reference documentation 2000/2002 and there is
a TimeLine object and a MainSequence Effect collection. But I cannot
see how I can know where I am in the sequence at a given time. Is
there some way I could get to the current state of the animation
sequence without having to keep track in my add-in, so that I could
ask every time a next step is taken whether or not all non-click
events have passed?

> I think you're misunderstanding how PowerPoint handles object animations.
> When you apply an animation to an object you're just adding it to a list of
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> all object animations, which makes sense for most situations, though I can
> see why you might want it to behave otherwise.

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"John Langhans [MSFT]" - 28 Oct 2004 22:43 GMT

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the kind of integration between the three primary
user interactivity slide show methods (Action Settings, Animation settings,
and Slide Transition settings) that you are looking for. It sounds that,
although there are workarounds, you would like this to be a lot easier to
do in PowerPoint.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide specific integration and interoperability between the different
interactivity methods, without having to resort to VBA or add-ins, don't
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