I don't know of any other way to do this in 2003, but that doesn't mean it is impossible. I will say though I have several projects like this that are between 100 and 1000 slides where I use masking to combine hyperlinks and animations. In some cases it is safer than using macros or vba. I tried finding a translation in English for the Diaporama mode you are talking about with no luck. Do you know what it would be in English?