Heres the text of the web site Annie - Hope it helps!

-- This technique assumes you know how to loop sound across slides.

When you loop the presentation using the options in Slide Show | Set Up
Show, you'll find that the music starts again on the first slide whenever the
presentation is looping. To overcome this problem, PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw
provides the perfect solution:

1. The trick is to insert a "kick-off" slide at the beginning of the slide
show to start your music.

2. Next mark slide 2 through the last slide to be a custom show with
automated timing to advance slides. Make sure Slide 1 DOES NOT have automated
timing to advance slide.

3. Add an Action Button (or hyperlink) to Slide One to link to the Custom
Show. Slide 1 should now have two items; the sound file and an action button
or hyperlink to start the Custom Show.

4. Set up the slide show to loop until ESC using automated timings and
showing all slides.

5. Save it as a .PPS (recommended).

When you run the slide show, Slide 1 will start the music and you'll need to
click on the Action Object or Hyperlink to start the custom show. From that
point on, the presentation should loop through Slide 2 to the Last Slide
without resetting the music (unless you have some other sound stop it between
Slide 2 and the Last Slide). If you saved it as a PowerPoint Show (PPS), the
whole thing will close neatly when you press ESC.

There's a sample file for this technique that you can download from Glenna's
site... The sample is called Loop Sounds.

Monday, August 23, 2004

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