November 9, 2004

How To Ensure Sounds And Animation Playback When Accessing Specific Slides

Playing sounds and animation inside a PowerPoint can prove to be a tricky task. Especially when your PowerPoint presentation needs to be transferred to a CD-ROM/DVD strange and unexpected things start to happen.

Here is in fact a curious story that reveals a common problem Powerpoint users may have when managing animation and sounds that need to be played each time a specific slide is accessed.


Marijke asked the following question:

QUESTION: I just made a PowerPoint Presentation concerning a learning program for school children.

On the introduction page I made hyperlinks to several slides.

All slides have animations and sound files.

All slides also have an action button with a hyperlink back to the introduction page.

When you first use a hyperlink from the introduction page to a certain slide (let's say slide 4) all animations and soundfiles work perfectly.


However, when I go back with the action bullet to the introduction page and from there go again to slide 4, nothing works anymore.

Since this presentation is for children (on autorun CD-ROM) and since they have to work with this CD-ROM by themselves, I know they will go back and forth through the presentation.

Can you help me with a solution for this problem?

By the way, the problem occurs when the presentation is still in the computer as well as on a CD-ROM.

Thank you in advance for trying to help.



ANSWER: It is nice to hear that somebody is interested in using PowerPoint presentations for the purpose of instructing kids.

I like the thought because PowerPoint is an easy tool to express the ideas that would inspire children's imagination.


I tried to make a presentation that includes hyperlinks following your instructions and this is what I have found out .....


posted by Robin Good on Tuesday, November 9 2004
Thursday, December 1 2005

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