zman

Thanks to all for your responses. I spent over an hour on this last evening before reporting it to the group. Before posting, I had tried everything you all had mentioned here but to no avail. So, today, I went back to try and duplicate the problem but I couldn't...at first. I have now found the "problem" to be when synchronizing these few slides to music. It is then the "finger" disappears. When I deselect the synch to music, the finger then reappears. I apologize for not including this and what is now a vital piece of information. For futher clarification, what I am doing is creating a "Master” or “Main" page which is one slideshow. This main slideshow has four slides. Working backwards, the last slide contains 3 "buttons" which link to run other slideshows. I only want these links to work on the last page. So, what I did was create the last slide first, dupe it three times, edit the first 3 slides so as each slide appears in the main slideshow each new button appears and by the time the last slide appears all buttons are visible and it is here that I want the buttons to actually “work” (that is, they will activate the associated program). Confused? I hope not. So, if you're still with me, all of this was synchronized to music. And, I didn't want those who view this slideshow to be able to breakout of it until the music stopped. So, after all that, I'm still not sure if this is how PTE is supposed to work or not. But I think I can work around this by adding the music in last but I'm not entirely sure. I need to play some more. I can report back if you’d like. Thanks to all!!!!!!

I have used PTE for a few years and I think I have a decent understanding of how to use it (at least to the point that satisfies me). I am now working on a more “extensive” slideshow and think I may have discovered a bug. I have one slide that has four objects on it and each object runs a different application (another slideshow). I copy and paste this slide four times (using the copy/paste under “Slide” on the menu bar). All of this works fine. However, if I go and edit any of the objects in any of the slides, the objects no longer run the application they once were able to prior to me editing the objects. They simply do not work. I do not get the "finger pointer" indicating an action will be take place on click. Am I doing something wrong, is this how it’s supposed to work or is this a bug? I am running PTE 4.20 Thank you for your help.