pause on exit

I know the "On Exit" action doesn't get much love on the forum, but this use of it has been working for me for pausing at end of a slide.  For whatever reason, I haven't had any success with using a pausing shape button on the main master.

Create a user variable, e.g. v_FrameIndexPause.

Create a conditional action. Standard action would work fine I'm sure, but I'm from the school of "all advanced actions should be made conditional, just in case."

• IF
  • 1 is equal to 1
• THEN
  • Assign v_FrameIndexPause with cpInfoCurrentFrame
  • Expression cpCmdGotoFrame = v_FrameIndexPause - 1

Then use this advanced action as the "On Exit" action for whichever slides you want to self-pause.  Good luck.

Never use the On Exit event when possible, it is not to be trusted at all. Moreover that event occurs after leaving the last frame.

If you have the same navigation buttons on each slide, did you try to put them on the Main master slide instead of having them timed for the rest of the project? If one of those shape buttons is pausing (you need to Options tab, because objects on the master slides do not have a Timing panel), it will always pause at the end of each slide based on that master slide. That is the big advantage over timed for the rest of the project, where the pausing point is fixed and probably your slides do not have all the same duration.