PPT97: Full Screen Show Doesn't Return to Browsed Show Correctly

ID: Q157803

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

If you view a Slide Show that is configured to be browsed by an individual in a window and then switch to a full-screen show, it does not quit correctly.

If you press ESC or click End Show on the Slide Show menu, the Slide Show does not end. Instead, it switches back to being a browsed show. You have to end the Slide Show again to quit it correctly.

CAUSE

When you run a browsed slide show and then switch to a full-screen show, PowerPoint starts a second copy of that Slide Show. You can press the ALT+TAB keys on your keyboard to switch back and forth between the two shows.

WORKAROUND

Once you have created these two instances of the Slide Show, you have to end each instance separately.

MORE INFORMATION

Viewing a Browsed Slide Show

1. On the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show.

2. In the Set Up Show dialog box, click Browsed By An Individual (Window).

3. Click OK.

4. On the Slide Show menu, click View Show or click the Slide Show button

   at the bottom of the screen.

Instead of filling the whole screen, the Slide Show plays in a big window.

Switching to a Full Screen Slide Show

1. With your right mouse button, click the Slide Show window.

2. Click Full Screen on the menu that appears.

Additional query words: 97 8.00 ppt8 windowed partial switch

Keywords          : kbusage
Version           : WINDOWS:97; MACINTOSH:98
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Hardware          : MAC x86
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: November 30, 1998