"That's fantastic Alyssa!  thanks so much for your help. Totalscore gets added when the timeline starts on slide 1.4 and on layer attache..."

"Thanks Alyssa I've stripped the file of the content and attached - there are some slides that you score points as part of a branching sc..."

"Thanks Alyssa but these solutions didn't help.  The in the attached thread was the most appropriate as that was about adding variables.  ..."