Automatic transition after animation

Question

Hi,

I would like to know if, in PowerPoint 2010, is possible to advance automatically a slide after the end of an animation that is started by a mouse click.

At the moment I could only force an automatic slide transition that automatically starts the animation as well (which I do not want to be started automatically).

Is it possible and how?

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Plo

Answer 1

Nope.  The trick is to insert a duplicate slide in front of the one with the animation. When you click to advance the duplicate slide it goes to the next slide and the animation starts, completes and automatically advances that slide.  Even though it's two slides (because they look the same) your audience won't be able to tell you went to a different slide as long as there is no transition between the two.

Answer 2

Glenna, not sure about the "automatically advances that slide" part? That is the crux of the problem, to automatically advance at the end of the animation.

Answer 3

Here's the trick:  

PowerPoint won't advance to the next slide until the animation finishes, so you can add an animation to Slide A then set Slide A+1 (ie, the next slide's) transition time to Advance Slide:  After (some small number of seconds/fractions of a second) and clear the On Click check box.

Your animation on Slide A will play then as soon as it's done, PPT will advance to the next slide.