Navigation and nonlinear PowerPoint presentations

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Navigation and non-linearPowerPoint presentations

• Adam Warren
• a.j.warren_at_soton.ac.uk023 8059 4486
• University of Southampton Centre for Learning and
  Teaching

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Linear presentations

• PowerPoints default mode
• sequences of slides, from first to last

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Non-linear presentations

• Choice of paths through a presentation
• menu to access specific slides or sections
• optional slides to customise presentation or
  answer questions from the audience
• networks of slides that allow independent
  exploration of the material

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Action Buttons

• Slide ShowgtAction Buttons
• choice of 12 pre-defined button designs

home (first slide)
show document
previous / next slide
play sound
first / last slide
play video
last slide viewed
info / help
custom
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Actions for objects

• Action Settings can apply to any object
• select object, Slide ShowgtAction Settings
• right-click object, Action Settings from menu

click me!
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Actions for text

• Action Settings can apply to text
• select text, Slide ShowgtAction Settings
• select text, right-click text, Action Settings
  from menu

go back to the previous slide
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What types of actions?

• actions on mouse click OR mouse over
• hyperlink actions
• move to a specified slide or URL
• display another file or presentation
• run a program (on the same PC)
• play a sound

back to the first slide,I guess
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Tricks with video files

• right-click the video and select Edit Sound
  Object
• choose the options e.g. full screen

Geeky technical stuffFor good quality full
screen movies, encode as a .wmv file with a
resolution of 640x480 and a bandwidth of 2 Mbps