PPT2000: Animation Doesn't Play When Viewing Previous Slide

While viewing your presentation in a slide show, if you select to view a previous slide that contains text, graphic animations, or narration, the text and graphics do not animate, and the narration does not play.

Microsoft PowerPoint only plays animations and narration when you advance to the slide.

Method 1: Return to the Previous Slide

If you want to repeat the animation or narration on a particular slide, return to the slide immediately before the slide containing the animation or narration, and then click to advance to the next slide.

If this slide is the first slide of the presentation, you can insert a hidden slide before it with its transition time set to 0 seconds, so that when you return or link to that slide, instead the "first" slide, the animations repeat normally when it automatically advances.

Method 2: Create a Macro to Reset the Slide Builds

In PowerPoint, you can create a macro to reset the builds on a specific slide. For additional information, please click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: