Powerpoint: Navigating to a specific slide using vba

Question

I would like to do one of two things. #1 would be my preferred option.

1. Detect the following actions on specific slides

Keyboard: pgup, pgdn, up arrow,down arrow, enter

Mouse: click, scrollup, scrolldown

Touch: swipe up, swipe down, tap

and then go to a specific slide.

2. Disable all the above actions on a specific slide (and I will go to a specific slide using an action button) .

Thank you

Answer 1

>> Now I'm reading on the net that touch devices don't work in kiosk mode and I have no control over how people will view my presentation.

Which touch devices, specifically?  I can't imagine that this is universally true.

You can create custom shows within a presentation and link to them (there's a Show and Return option) to get just what you're asking for here, I think.  No need to have multiple presentations in a folder.

Answer 2

Thank you for your patience Steve. I'm an infrequent PowerPoint user and was unaware of the Custom Show with the show and return option.

I had eventually programmed it, but I have thrown that in the bin and am now using the built-in Custom Show functionality that you pointed out which does exactly what I want.

Well Done!

Answer 3

I split my presentation into seven parts and linked them with action and put it into kiosk mode which wasn't what I wished to do, but it seemed to be the only solution.

Now I'm reading on the net that touch devices don't work in kiosk mode and I have no control over how people will view my presentation.

Microsoft need to fix this.

I would further suggest that slides that are linked to an action button on slide 7 are numbered 7A1, 7A2, 7A3, etc. and return to slide 7 upon exiting the last slide. No need to have this clunky method of separate slide shows in a folder that you can't email.

Answer 4

When I couldn't find a solution on the net, I had begun to wonder if it was possible.

I was hoping to do it without the action buttons. This should be built into PowerPoint.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 5

#1's kind of a non-starter unless you're VERY familiar with low-level Windows API programming.

If you don't mind disabling keyboard actions throughout, you can set the presentation up to run in Kiosk mode (Slide Show Setup dialog box) and add your own action buttons throughout.