Change button text AND change slides

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Francis Hookham - 19 Aug 2006 15:59 GMT

I have several buttons* on one slide

In the slide show I want to click a button to move to another slide - easy,
just hyperlink to the other slide, but I should like the clicking of the
button to also change the colour of the text in that button so it is clear,
when returning later to the slide with buttons, which buttons have already
been clicked.

I know hyperlinks change once clicked but I do not want the text in the
button to be underlined so I am hyperlinking the button, not the text within
the button.

So my question is how is a macro called from a mouse click within a
slideshow?

Francis Hookham

* I use the word 'button' to mean a 'Basic shapes - bevel'

Reply to this Message

Jim Gordon - 20 Aug 2006 04:17 GMT

Hi Francis,

Although you could write a macro to do this, I think in this situation
you could accomplish everything you need to do by using entrance and
exit effects.

When you click the link to leave the current slide use an exit effect to
have the text box leave the slide and then have another text box with
the clear formatting enter after the previous animation executes.

You can right-click (control-click) on a button in PowerPoint and choose
the "run macro" option.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

> I have several buttons* on one slide
>
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
>
> * I use the word 'button' to mean a 'Basic shapes - bevel'

Reply to this Message

Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / August 2006

Change button text AND change slides