PowerPoint "sub-presentation"?

I’m working on a rather large PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, I make frequent references to specific cases that illustrate my point. In general, I only say “this thing is used, for example, here, here, and here”. However, in case the audience asks questions, I’d like to be able to quickly expand on these points.

For this, I prepare “secret slides” (“sub-presentations”) that are not presented in the usual flow, but rather are used only when asked. After I present the sub-presentation, I want to resort to the referring slide to continue the normal presentation. And therein is my problem.

  1. The sub-presentations are usually longer than a single slide, thus a return link to “last slide” won’t work.
  2. I may link to each sub-presentation more than once, so a static “return” link won’t work either.
  3. The problem may probably be solved by putting each sub-presentation in its own file, but than my presentation will need dozens of files, and some of which may be lost in transitions.

The way I do it now, is by copying the sub-presentations multiple times in the presentation and using fixed “return” links. But that is clearly a flawed way.

Is there a better way to do it?

I don’t have time to test this, but is it possible to launch a completely separate pps over the top of the current show? - that way, you could launch it from here there and everywhere, but when it finished, it would just disappear and reveal the original show underneath where you left it.

ETA: Oops… I see you covered that in item 3. Sorry.

Custom Shows.

Make your main slides custom show number one, then make each other sub-show it’s own custom show. Now you can hyperlink to each custom show (Action Setting, Custom Show …, make sure you check the ‘show and return’ box) from within your main show.

You’ll need to set up which custom show is the main show as well but it’s all on the page I linked.

I’ve just tried it and it works like a charm, let me know if that’s not what you wanted to do.

Wow, thanks SpaceDog. That’s awesome.

Wow, SpaceDog!
That looks just like what I was hoping for. I can’t test it right now, but will report back when I do.

SpaceDog – Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!

Both of you are most welcome.

I’m just glad I could help out.