Multiple Powerpoint presentations together

[benlinkknilneb]

Hey all,

We have a weekly meeting of all supervisors, and each section has a few custom powerpoint slides that they show during their respective parts. I'm looking to automate the presentation building process as follows:

I want 1 master presentation in folder x. X has subfolders, 1 for each department, such that they can edit their section of the presentation. I want the master presentation to link them together (I have a title page for each department, then I'd want to link into their presentations and show the slides... once that's done, I'd then return to the master presentation's next slide to show the next department's title page, then rinse, lather, repeat). I would do regular links, but I don't know how many slides they'll have in a given department's section. Any ideas?

Ben
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[xlhelp]

Hope this helps:

http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

 

[benlinkknilneb]

That was a good start... still didn't do exactly what I wanted though. I dug around in the help files and discovered the following solution:

The master presentation has 1 slide for each of the sub-presentations. The object containing the linked presentation has a custom animation "show object" on click.

This was nice, except the user had to click twice at the beginning of each sub-presentation.... once to activate, and then once to advance the slide. So I made the first slide in each sub-presentation have a transition that took effect immediately. This way, when they click to activate the sub-presentation, it automatically advances beyond the title page... it looks more like they just clicked to change slides (which is what they're used to doing).

This has solved almost all my problem. The only thing I have left is one little tweak: at the end of each sub-presentation, it reverts back to the main presentation's slide and shows the unactivated title page from the sub-presentation. I can't figure out how to automatically advance at this point. It's a minor nuisance, I can overlook it, but I'd like to fix it if anyone has an idea.

Ben
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. - Douglas Adams