This may sound silly, but I am working a lot with PowerPoint, and this issue drives me nuts: While I am working on my presentation, it suddenly and without reason flips to the next page. As far as I can tell, I have not pressed any buttons, there are no macros in the document, and my mouse is far away from the keyboard. This is really annoying, especially if I am typing things into a text field, not looking at the monitor, and suddenly I am on the next page. Does anybody know what I’m talking about and is there any way to stop this madness, or am I just imagining things?
Are you perhaps accidentally pushing certain keys on your keyboard? If you’re on (for example) a cramped laptop keyboard, you might be hitting the Page Down key once in a while and that might be taking you to the next slide…
No, I am on a PC and the Page Down key is rather far from where I am typing - unless there are other keys on the keyboard proper that are assigned the same role? Is there a certain combination of keys that symbolizes the Page Down?
That’s probably not it then, sorry.
I once had a wireless mouse whose scroll wheel would sometimes do things when it wasn’t being touched. In some applications that would mean a page change. In my case: new mouse = problem solved.
Do you have the slide sorter work space open on the left side of the screen? I’ve been confused before thinking I was in the main area, and instead the slide sorter was live.
If you are doing powerpoints keep this in mindlink
In Presentation Mode, Space bar, Enter, Down Arrow and Page Down all advance the slides. So does Left Click. There is also a setting to automatically advance all slides after a predetermined amount of time.
In the editing mode, if the Slide Editing window is selected, the Down Arrow plus the number 2 and number 3 if the NumLock is on will also advance the slide you are working on. If the Slide selector window (usually on the left) is selected, hitting the Enter button will also advance the slide being viewed in the edit window (in addition to the down arrows and Page Down)
Hm, I’m in Edit mode when it is doing what it does - it might be the Slide selector window, I’ll check to see if that’s open when it happens again. And I think it might be time to get another mouse. Thank you, guys (or gals)!
blinkingblinking, yeah, I completely agree with that article. I hate presentations where people just read off what’s written on the screen (especially if they’ve used font size 10 and wrote a whole novel on each slide - a lot of lecturers at my university subscribed to that modus operandi).
Myself, most of the time, I don’t actually *give *a presentation with the charts I make, we use them for our reports like you would use a Word document. That means I have to spend some time composing my slides, which is why this thing gets on my nerves.