PowerPoint and Previous Slide

[Angela61299]

Hi. Is there anyway in PowerPoint 2000 to configure your mouse to take you to the previous slide during a slide show without right clicking and choosing Previous from the menu or using the Page Up key on the keyboard? For example, can you configure the right mouse button to automatically take you to the previous slide? Thanks.

 

[Dodom]

Angela61299,

There is a way....sort of. In PowerPoint click Tools, Options and make sure you are on the View tab. Now de-select 'Pop-up menu on right mouse click'. Now when you run the slide show a right mouse click takes you to the previous item on the current slide and if you keep right clicking, eventually you will be taken to the previous slide.

Another option that doesn't use the right mouse button but gives the left mouse button control of forward or backward is the use of AutoShapes. For something like this, I would put the AutoShapes on the Master instead of each individual slide (do it once and forget it!). Click View, Master, Slide Master, then click AutoShapes (on the Drawing Toolbar) and select Action Buttons and either the first or second button on the 2nd row of buttons (epending on what you want it to do). Now, click and drag to create the button the screen. I would put the Previous in the lower left hand corner of the screen and the Next in the lower right hand corner of the screen. Once you creat the button, you will get and Action Settings dialog box. Choose HyperLink to either Previous or Next, again depending on the buttons created. Then click OK. If you want the buttons to be unobtrusive or even invisible to the viewer, you can right click on the button and choose Format AutoShape. To make it translucent, match the button color to the background color as close as possible and chose SemiTransparent. Or to make it totally invisible, choose None for both Fill and Line. How does the presenter know they are over a button when they can't see it? The cursor on screen will turn into the default hyperlink cursor (usually a hand with a pointing finder) when they move over the transparent button. One thing of note is that if you do put one of the buttons in the lower left hand corner, you will then NOT want the menu pop up to appear when you are running the slide show when you move over the lower left corner, so again through Tools, Options and View tab, you can de-select 'Show popup menu button'.

Hope all this helps.......

 

[AngO]

Angela61299,
Dodom suggestions were great.
I just had to ask, are other keyboard shortcuts out of the question?
Left Arrow/Up Arrow/P
AngO