I have a self-running presentation. Some of the slides depend on the time. I have created an Excel file with the time table. The presentation initially reads the valid times for each slide. A slide can be valid till "09.09.2013 17:00". Thereafter it should be hidden. I have done it with VBA function "OnSlideShowPageChange": If the time-table-time is less than now() then move to slide + 1. (.GotoSlide i + 1).


There is however a problem: When the slide should be skipped, it actually shows up, but immediately changes to next slide. Is there a function or property acting in advance - not when the event already has been triggered?

Håkan

Couldn't you run the time check on the previous slide and then Hide the next slide if needed

.Slides(i+1).SlideShowTransition.Hidden=msoTrue (or msoFalse)

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Thank you for your easy solution. I'll give it a try.

It does not seem to work as required. However the biggest problem here is that executions won't suspend at breakpoints. Debugging is very troublesome!

Your solution sets hidden permanently. As I already have hidden slides, I don't want to mix with them or by accident unhide a slide I have originally set to hidden. A better solution for my application would be to set the next active slide to i+2. I suppose I'd better use App_SlideShowNextSlide instead but then, how I set the next slide number to ActiveSlide + 2?

Håkan

I was suggesting using msoFalse and or msoTrue to hide/unhide as required by checking the time whatever againt the slide number.

You might want to look at a free addin that may do what you need
http://www.ppted.com/addins/presenta...planpoint.html

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