PowerPoint 2013 - Kiosk Mode with Touch Enabled - Touch does not work with Mouse Click Action Configured on Text Boxes

Anonymous
2012-12-31T22:53:37+00:00

When I create a PPT 2013 presentation with my Surface RT tablet that has touch mode enabled and has text Boxes labeled with menu selections with a mouse click action to go to a slide within the presentation based upon what the user chooses in the menu of the first slide. I am able to trigger the action with a mouse or touch.  When I enable kiosk mode, I loose the touch capability, only the mouse works.

I want to create a kiosk presentation with PowerPoint 2013 that has touch capability to start on the first slide via a menu with multiple paths in my PowerPoint presentation based on what the user wants to see and then have it return back to the first slide.

Also noticed, that if the user holds their finger down on the screen long enough over the presentation, PowerPoint will show controls on the bottom (left/right arrows, close, etc.)  The close button works and this is not good.  This is the case when saving as a PPSX file or within PowerPoint using preview.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Carl

Microsoft 365 and Office | PowerPoint | For home | Windows

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-24T16:02:09+00:00

    Anyone found the fix for PPT 2016 yet? I can't find it anyway. (I have tried to update with windows update on my Windows 10 tablet where I'm using PPT but still doesn't work.) So do I have to get PPT 2013 now? Because it's really a make or break thing for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-06-06T05:54:46+00:00

    Hello Ryan,

    This is great that you have fixed the issue. Could you update us with the progress of getting it updated? If/when it is completed how can we access the fix?

    thanks in advance

    Sorry, every time I thought of finding the KB article I would forget later in the day :(.  Here it is:

    PPT 2013: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3114815

    I can't find the one for PPT 2016 but if you update, it should be there.  I think it was released before the 2013 one.

    Fixes the following issue:

    When you slide show a presentation in Kiosk mode in PowerPoint 2013 on a touch monitor, you can't interact with hyperlinks and media.

    Please let me know if you have any issues.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T06:31:57+00:00

    You guys will must be disappointed as me because I found it doesn't work in Powerpoint 2016 neither!

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-12-09T13:30:22+00:00

    Hello Ryan,

    This is great that you have fixed the issue. Could you update us with the progress of getting it updated? If/when it is completed how can we access the fix?

    thanks in advance

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