Thanks for your replies, however none of the applications you mention above, specifically MS Powerpoint is capable of accomplishing my needs. My slideshow is a dynamic, everchanging event....meaning no two slideshow presentations are the same.....only FileMaker affords the presenter the ability to navigate through the slides "on the fly" during a presentation. Additionally, the data presented in the slide show is also arranged to produce printed documents in various formats....again, something Powerpoint is not designed to do. It's difficult to really explain the wide scope of uses, but suffice it to say the applications mentioned above are solely designed for presentation and not much else. FileMaker does an excellent job of presenting a slideshow (although I'm sure the software authors never imagined that it could), except for the problems I've encountered mentioned above.
Thanks again for rour replies.