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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / June 2006Trigger automatic slide transition *after* a mouse click?
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?? 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 >I want to set up a slide where I click to start an animation, and then the > slide transitions automatically to the next one. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Can this be done?? 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. > 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 [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > > Can this be done?? 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 > This dosn't work for me or I am not following your directions right. > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >> > >> > Can this be done?? 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 > This dosn't work for me or I am not following your directions right. > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >> > >> > Can this be done?? 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. > Art, should be in your in box. Let us know if this is what you had in mind. > [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > >> > > >> > Can this be done?? 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 > Thanks Austin. > [quoted text clipped - 98 lines] >> >> > >> >> > Can this be done?? 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 > 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 [quoted text clipped - 115 lines] >>> >> > >>> >> > Can this be done?? 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. > thanks again austin. Anytime! Glad it worked out for you. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com |
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