Presenter 7 - Force Slide Order?

Question

Just started playing around with this. The slide order is a
huge shortcoming and maybe someone has an XML or SWF trick for me?
I want the user to take the slides ONLY in a particular
order, but I want to keep the vavigation pane (on the Left side in
my case). I tried to set the minimum time to 10 seconds and that
LOCKS the slide for 10 seconds. When I have sound done, then it
will match the sound duration and I get that. The problem is that I
can click on ANY slide in the Left navigation pane and thus take
the course out of order. I want to force it to go in sequence.
I have not tried the Next Slide option and there may be other
tricks. Adobe should have had a setting checkbox set like this:
X Slides must be taken in order presented
X Allow backward movement
There are many other things that I'll post, including a few
crashes, but so far, this is one slick tool that just begs for more
options.
Joe C.

Answer 1

The good news is that the sound editing solution noted above
does work. I appreciate your can-do and never say never attitude
because it makes the Message Boards useful.
While your solution does work, it is still a work around to
what should be a single checkbox for the entire presentation. I
have more than several hundred slides to deal with in a project
that spans over 1,000 hours of development time and I DO appreciate
the solution / workaround. But my time will be simplified with the
proper option and this tool is supposed to be a simple way of
getting this done from PpowerPoint, so perhaps Adobe will see the
point where simplicity looks brillient and workarounds are torture.
Note that I did try Select-All and then the Insert Command,
that does not insert the command for all slides. It requires doing
this for each slide.
There are other problems that I sent to Adobe, including the
Quiz Summaries per Quiestion Group forcing the presentation to stop
dead at the Quiz summary and not continue. I sent them a slew of
small issues and I do believe that they are at least listening and
seeing what I found. If all goes well, that will mean smarter
software in the future.
The key to Presenter 7 is simplicity and locking out options
that cannot work. Adobe has a good idea here, but the last 10% may
take 50% of the effort to add the polish that locks-out impossible
scenarios (or at least warns about them) and where one click can
replace hundreds of clicks for setup. It is hard to think this way
for some programmers, but the concept is to have the software do
what the person is thinking without the workarounds, hacks or odd
settings that act as workarounds. They are quite close and
reporting the issues to Adobe gives us all a chance to make the
process smoother, faster and more enjoyable.
Thanks for your workaround, it is a "punt" strategy for me
now and I think that Adobe may find a way to do this with one
checkbox.
Joe C.