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Add a looping introduction to a PowerPoint presentation

I used to have this problem when I am waiting for my speech to begin I forgot to press F5 so everybody can view my PP Normal view... it was not good at all...

This looping presentation idea is the answer ... it is the kind of idea that is so easy and effective that I can?t believe I didn?t come up with ...

Thanks a lot!..

I agree -- it's very simple and should be a helpful addition to most any presentation. I'm glad you like it!

Great idea! An alternative to using a button that links to the first slide in the main presentation is to simply type the number of that first main slide and press [Enter]. That way, your audience doesn't even see you move a mouse and click.

Hi Susan,

Please advise how to have the effect of looping until ESC for Powerpoint Presentations that called from multiple PPT files,created in various versions such as 2000,2003,2007.

I have tried using Powerpoint Viewer 97 but the presentation seems to throw out some errors that resulted in rerunning the whole process again.


The objective is to display presentation 1.ppt to 5.ppt and restart from 1.ppt and so on.It will only exits from the loop when "ESC" key is pressed.

Thanks

Best Regards
Vincent Lee

This was very helpful. The one challenge I still faced was that I cannot use Presenter Mode during many of my presentations since I'm duplicating screens and using a presentation remote that can only advance to the next animation or slide. Therefore, although the linking button to the main presentation got me to the correct slide (slide 4, in this case), simply clicking Advance on my presentation remote took me back to the looping introductory presentation at slide 1. To get around this, I changed two steps: I didn't hide any slides, and I didn't link to slide 4 in my link. Instead, on the Slide Show tab (in PowerPoint 2010), instead of using Set Up Slide Show, I chose Custom Slide Show. I created two new custom shows - Custom Show 1 included my first three slides (the introductory presentation) and Custom Show 2 included all the other slides (my main presentation). Then, for my linking button, rather than linking it to slide 4 in the Edit Hyperlink box, I linked it to Custom Show 2, and then checked the "Show and return" box. Now, the first three slides loop until I make one on-screen click to the linking button, then I step throught the main presentation using the Advance button on the remote. After I am done with the last slide of the main presentation, I press Escape on the keyboard, and PowerPoint goes directly back to Custom Show 1, so my introductory presentation slides then start looping again as the audience asks questions, etc.

I have made a 3 slide looping holding page and an action button to hyperlink to slide 4 which is the 1st slide of my presentation after the loop. I cannot get from slide 4 to slide 5 etc. It takes me back to the loop when I mouse click on it.

Help & Thank you
Robyn