PowerPoint Tips Blog

Helping you with presenting, PowerPoint, and speaking

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Tips
  • E-Store
  • Training
  • About
  • Affiliates
  • Advertise
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Design / Animation & transitions / How to use your remote to switch to another presentation in PowerPoint 2007 & 2010

How to use your remote to switch to another presentation in PowerPoint 2007 & 2010

November 14, 2011 by Ellen Finkelstein 6 Comments

READ LATER - DOWNLOAD THIS POST AS PDF >> CLICK HERE <<

A friend asked me, “How can I link to another presentation and use my remote to get to that presentation?”

Here’s the problem. You can easily link any shape to another presentation by hyperlinking it. I have instructions in my tip, “Link to other presentations and return to the original presentation.”

But to activate that hyperlink, you need to actually click the shape on the screen. This means that you need to go to your laptop, move your cursor onto the shape, and click.

What if you’re not close to your laptop and are using a remote to go from slide to slide? This is a common situation when you’re in a large room or just want to  move around among the audience members.

The solution is not obvious at all, so here are the steps:powerpoint_tips-use-remote-to-go-to-another-presentation-1

  1. Choose Insert> Object.  This opens the Insert Object dialog box.
  2. Click Create From File. Then browse to, and open, the presentation. You’ll see an image of the presentation’s first slide.
  3. Decide if you want the image to show. If it looks good and is a good indicator to the audience of what’s to come, leave it on the slide. Otherwise, select the icon and drag it off the slide.
  4. Open the Animation pane. In PowerPoint 2007, choose Animations tab> Custom Animation. In PowerPoint 2010, choose Animations tab> Animation Pane.You might be wondering, why the Animation pane?
  5. The image should still be selected. In 2007, click the Add Effect button> Object Actions> Show. In 2010, choose Add Animation> OLE Action Verbs> Show and click OK.

This puts the showing of the second presentation in the animation order. So when you click your remote, that presentation is displayed in Slide Show view. You can go through it and when it ends, you’re automatically back on the slide where you started.

powerpoint_tips-use-remote-to-go-to-another-presentation-2

If you know of a way to do this in PowerPoint 2003, please leave a comment! The options in 2003 are only Open and Edit, which don’t open the presentation in Slide Show view.

Share6
Tweet
Share1
+14
Shares 11
READ LATER - DOWNLOAD THIS POST AS PDF >> CLICK HERE <<

Related posts:

  1. Start a video with a remote
  2. Switch to another presentation seamlessly
  3. Link to a specific PowerPoint 2003, 2007 or 2010 slide from Microsoft Word or Excel
  4. Which presenter remote do you recommend?

Filed Under: Animation & transitions, Delivery Tagged With: hyperlink, insert object, link, object actions, OLE Action Verbs, remote

6
Leave a Reply

avatar
This comment form is under antispam protection
5 Comment threads
1 Thread replies
0 Followers
 
Most reacted comment
Hottest comment thread
5 Comment authors
Jayesh GuptaEllenDavidTony OsimeWayne Michael Recent comment authors
avatar
This comment form is under antispam protection
  Subscribe  
newest oldest most voted
Notify of
Wayne Michael
Guest
Wayne Michael

Great tip Ellen! I hadn’t used that effect before.

Vote Up0Vote Down 
11 years ago
Tony Osime
Guest
Tony Osime

This is an excellent tip.

Is there a way to make the jump to another slideshow optional?

Vote Up0Vote Down 
11 years ago
David
Guest
David

Many thanks for this, I can really use this.

Vote Up0Vote Down 
11 years ago
Ellen
Guest
Ellen

Tony, Only by clicking on the slide. Then you can choose — or not — to click the hyperlink. Also, custom shows are optionally shown slides within the presentation. I cover them in this tip: http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/add-flexibility-with-custom-shows/.

Vote Up0Vote Down 
11 years ago
Ellen
Guest
Ellen

Tony,
I just wrote a post on how you can make switching optional, but you would need to click. See if this works for you: http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/switch-to-another-presentation-seamlessly/

Vote Up0Vote Down 
10 years ago
Jayesh Gupta
Guest
Jayesh Gupta

Hi Ellen,

That was just an amazing solution. However, I was wondering if this could be achieved with a PDF or a word file as well.

Thanks in advance

Vote Up0Vote Down 
8 years ago
wpdiscuz   wpDiscuz

Free Video Training!

13 Techniques that Will Make Designing Your Slides EASY!

And get the PowerPoint Tips Newsletter with tips and resources for presenters. Plus 5 bonus tips!

BirdSend Email Marketing Tool
4-up-ads PresenterMedia PoweredTemplate High-Persuasion Secrets Power Pointers Quarter Hour


Recent Posts

Recent Posts

  • How do you format your slide titles?
  • Using PowerPoint’s cartoon people
  • Which version of PowerPoint should you buy?
  • Add a customizable, live web feed with Cameo
  • Get a designer look with abstract images to create backgrounds for slides and shapes

Connect with me!

Connect with me! Twitter LinkedIn Facebook

Ellen Finkelstein, Inc. · Fairfield, IA · Tel: 515-989-1832

Privacy, Refund, and Other Legal Stuff

wpDiscuz