I am creating a powerpoint presentation and all in all it's going okay. The one big issue I'm having is when I have more than one animation pop up on the slide. After the last animation appears, it's only there for a short moment before the entire slide transitions to the next one. It doesn't seem to be an issue when I have only one thing on a slide.



I've changed all the timing settings I can find, but to no avail. What am I missing?
Thanks

Without seeing how the animations are setup it's hard to tell but a work-around would be to insert a plain shape with no fill colour and no outline (so it's invisible), position it off the slide area and just put a small animation on it for however long you want the slide to remain open and then when you run the animation the last visible animation will run, the invisible one will then run and keep the slide open that little bit longer that you want and then it will move to the next slide.

Great idea, wish I'd thought of that several hours ago! As a workaround that should work.

I'm not sure if it's a timing setting I'm missing or what, but it only seems to be doing it when on one particular slide where I have 3 photos popup up, one at a time. And then after the 3rd one it's only there for about 1 second before the slide transition begins.

I have other slides with multiple animations (all photos for a graduation presentation I'm doing for my daughter) and it doesn't seem to be affected.

Thanks

If the transition time is set shorter than the total animations time then it will transition as soon as the last animation is over. That's how it works.

The Training ladie's suggestion to add a further hidden animation is the best way to get around this.

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Thanks for the other suggestion. I think I've got that part whipped. Another problem that cropped up.

When I play a background song across slides, I want to pause it at one point to play some videos. After the videos I want to resume the audio file where it left off. Is that possible? I've been able to insert the audio file, but not sure how to do the pause/resume feature.

Also, I think I had said I had PPT 2013, but it's PPT 2010.

Thanks for all the help.

There's no way to pause and restart a sound like this in the GUI. You MIGHT be able to fake it by having two sound files but I doubt it will be satisfactory.

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As JohnWilson said, there is no way to do this with a PPT feature. If you use slide transitions and you can calculate the length of time you want the music to play for before the pause, you could edit your music clip to play for the desired amount and then stop. And possibly restart again once video plays but as stated it would be tricky to achieve a seamless transition with the music.

Only work around I can think of is that you have the audio playing on another computer or maybe via a smartphone hooked up to audio speakers and you manually pause the song when the video slide appears, and then Play again when video ends.