Re: preventing slide advance during audio playback

From: bitterphile <bitterphile_at_discussions.microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 18:36:01 -0800

Ute,
  Kiosk mode was the key solution. That prevented him from advancing slides with mouse clicks before audio was finished. One other problem however, is that he has visual impairment, and cannot navigate a mouse to click on a button for advancement. To solve this problem, I created a large transparent box (full screen) that appeared after the audio finished. I have a button box that can be assigned to any key (or mouse click) that he operates. So now, after the audio is finished, he simply pushes the button (activating a mouse click) at his leisure, and the slide advances to the next. Perfect! Vielen dank!
Bitterphile

"Ute Simon" wrote:

> >I have been creating audio books for my son in Powerpoint--he advances a
> > slide and an embedded mp3 reads the page to him. My problem is that if he
> > advances again (too soon), the sound will stop and will advance to the
> > next
> > slide before finishing the audio. Is there any way to prevent powerpoint
> > from advancing until after the audio file has finished playing? I've
> > tried a
> > variety of solutions and am stumped.
> > Any suggestions much appreciated!
>
> Use Slideshow - Set up show to set your presentations to kiosk mode. So the
> viewer cannot advance slides with mouse clicks or arrow keys, but with
> hyperlinks only. Insert an interactive button with an action setting to
> advance to next slide. Animate this button to appear after previous. Make
> sure, that this is the last animation in the list. So the button to advance
> the slide will not be there while the audio is playing. You can simply copy
> this button to all other slides.
>
> Best regards,
> Ute
>
> --
> Ute Simon
> Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team und PowerPoint-User-Team
> Schon gesehen? www.ppt-user.de/blogger und www.ppt-tv.de
>
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 01 2008 - 18:36:01 PST