Hi Dane
Thank you for the suggestion and yep, it works fine on branch tables.
I have a dilemma though - my lessons have quite a few pages and we have the side menu switched on - this is really useful because it automatically sets up navigation picked up from the titles of branch tables. The drawback is if I set up everything as a branch, this side menu gets cluttered and loses its value as a way to skip to another 'chapter' in a lesson.
So I'll use it when appropriate but still wonder why the moodle help for the slideshow setting in the lesson setup says that you can just turn on prev' and next buttons, yet unless I am misreading it nobody seems to find the mystical setting!
Cheers
Ed