Auto advance effects animation timings

[noni]

Hello,
I have a presentation where I have to use automatic advance between slides, but still be able to wait for clicks in the custom animation settings within each slide. The problem I'm having is that as soon as I set the slide transitions to advance automatically, Powerpoint ignores the "on Click" settings in the custom animation for each slide and just runs through all the effects one after another. Does anyone know if there's a way to get around this bug? Thank you in advance.

PS- I just installed the trial version of Office 2011, and it acts exactly the same way. If I don't have my slide transitions set to advance on click, then my custom animation timings don't work
Thanks again in advance.

[JohnWilson]

I'm guessing you mean that you want your slide to transition after the last on click animation WITHOUT a further click. Sadly there's no way to achieve this from the GUI.

There is a trick which can make it LOOK like this happens which will work with many slides. It's a bit of work but I think it's the only way.

DUPLICATE the slide to get two identical slides.

Slide One remove the LAST animation but leave transition on click
Slide Two Remove all EXCEPT the last animation and set this to 'with previous'.
Give this slide an auto transition.

[noni]

Thank you for your reply, John. What I'm finding is that any time ANY of the slides have an auto slide transition, then none of the custom animation effects on ANY slide can be "on Click"... or they can be, but they will be ignored. What I wanted to do was to have an object animate on and wait for a click, then animate off before the slide auto transitions to the next. The only work around possible, I found, was to just forget the idea of the object animating off, and just replace the click effect with a click transition which dissolves to the next slide. It will do, I suppose. Thanks again

PS-One other work around would be similar to what you suggested, where I do as I described above except that i start the next slide with the "animate off" part of the animation. I chose to just eliminate that part for the sake of neatness in the eyes of the client. I thought it might look kind of sloppy and amateurish to have objects repeated everywhere like that, if you know what I mean But if it were my personal slide show, I would do it that way.

[JohnWilson]

Hi noni

I'm not a Mac user but on a PC it is definitely NOT true that if ANY slide has an autotransition other slides cannot have on click animations. I would be surprized if it were true on Macs.

Are you sure you didn't apply the auto transition to ALL slides (quite easy to do)

[noni]

Oh yeah, you're right! I must have been tired when that seemed to happen last night and set more than one to auto. At least that works right However, the original problem still holds true on a per slide basis. Still, slides with auto advance can't have clicks here. Can they on PC? I used to use PPT on PC and I think it was better. (Sometimes I think MS is hoping to frustrate Mac users into installing Windows. Especially with the lack of selection tools, but that's a whole other issue.)

[JohnWilson]

No, you cannot mix On Click and auto transitions on one slide in PCs. The original method should work quite well in your scenario.

[noni]

Yes, I see what you mean now. Thank you for your help, and thank you for letting me know it's the same on the PC. It's good to know it isn't a Mac/PC issue.