Random slide selection

[Tushar Mehta]

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With VBA it is definitely doable and I would have pointed you to the
PowerPoint | Random Slide Show page of my web site. However, it
randomizes the entire slide show. The basic idea is to create a custom
slide show that specifies a particular sequence for the slides.

Now that you know it can be done, depending on your VBA comfort level
maybe you'll do it yourself.
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I have a user who want to create a self-running
presentation that will have a series of slides repeated
regularly and another group of slides that would be
selected randomly. For example, they want slides 1-5 to
appear every time through followed by two slides from
slides 6 to 10.
I can't think of any way of doing it without writing VBA
code and maybe not then. Does anyone have any suggestions.
Thanks
Bill

[Echo S]

I think Tushar might have something for this.

http://www.tushar-mehta.com/
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I have a user who want to create a self-running
presentation that will have a series of slides repeated
regularly and another group of slides that would be
selected randomly. For example, they want slides 1-5 to
appear every time through followed by two slides from
slides 6 to 10.
I can't think of any way of doing it without writing VBA
code and maybe not then. Does anyone have any suggestions.
Thanks
Bill

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Post by Echo S
I think Tushar might have something for this.
http://www.tushar-mehta.com/
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I have a user who want to create a self-running
presentation that will have a series of slides repeated
regularly and another group of slides that would be
selected randomly. For example, they want slides 1-5 to
appear every time through followed by two slides from
slides 6 to 10.
I can't think of any way of doing it without writing VBA
code and maybe not then. Does anyone have any suggestions.
Thanks
Bill

[B]

Very doable with a little VBA coding. and a little help from our guru's.

You'll need one of the capture events add-in's:
http://www.mvps.org/skp/autoevents.htm
or
http://officerone.tripod.com/eventgen/eventgen.html

Under the open show events
add code that will pick two numbers between 6 and 10.
Hide the slides that are not picked, un-hide the slides that are.
Viola!

B
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I have a user who want to create a self-running
presentation that will have a series of slides repeated
regularly and another group of slides that would be
selected randomly. For example, they want slides 1-5 to
appear every time through followed by two slides from
slides 6 to 10.
I can't think of any way of doing it without writing VBA
code and maybe not then. Does anyone have any suggestions.
Thanks
Bill