PowerPoint 2010 - repeat slide using image or button

Question

I'm using PowerPoint 2010 but will be uploading it in Adobe Connect via Adobe Presenter.

Intead of using the controls in Adobe Presenter, I need to set up my own controls.  I would like to create a button that repeats the current slide when clicked.  I tried that Action --> Slide --> and selected the same slide but it does nothing. 

Is it possible to re-play a slide upon clicking an image (button) on the slide?

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

Is it fair to assume that you have a slide with animations and you want a way to make it play from the getgo, repeating all the animations?

The usual way to do this in PowerPoint is to add a black slide, or a slide that's a duplicate of your animated slide but with all of the animated shapes removed (so it looks just like the animated slide when it first appears).  Add the new slide just before the animated slide then give it an automatic transition to the next slide after 0 seconds.

The button you add to your animated slide is a link to this "dummy" slide.

In practice, as soon as PPT goes to the dummy slide, it immediately jumps to the following slide, your animated one.  Usually it happens faster than the video can even refresh, so the dummy never even gets displayed.

Whether that trick will translate into Adobe-dom ...?  No idea.  Give it a try and let us know.

Answer 2

Thanks Steve. This method (dummy slide) works perfectly in Presenter as well.

Answer 3

You'll need to find out what PPT features Adobe Connect/Presenter supports and stick to using only those.

Answer 4

Thank Steve, I will try this next and post the result.

I found out a way to repeat using custom shows. It worked in PowerPoint but after I published it in Adobe, it didn't work.