animate text box on command

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How do I choose which text box to animate within the same slide on my
command? i.e. family feud game style, the revelation/order of each box is on
my command instead of presetting it to the order it was in already?
 
Annie,

If you are using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003, then you want animation triggers.
You can set a shape to have an entrance or exit animation based on a click on
another (or the same) shape. This is very easy.

If you are using an earlier version of PowerPoint, you will need some simple
VBA. This is not very hard if you have used VBA before, but VBA is always a
bit tricky if you have never used it before.

Let us know which version you are using, and if you need help with either of
these options.

--David

David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
Sorry for the delayed response. My newsgroup checking is sporadic over
the weekend. The easiest thing to do is to hide and show objects. A
simple VBA command like:

ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Slide.Shapes(5).Visible = False

will hide the fifth shape on the current slide.

You can check out some complete examples that use this method to hide and
show objects at my Web site:

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

Examples 6-6 and 6-8 do this kind of thing. You are welcome to download
these examples and play with them. If you have never done any VBA, you
might want to start with the "Programming PowerPoint" section of thePPT
FAQ:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/#PROGRAMMING_POWERPOINT

Otherwise, someone here might have the time to whip up a quick example
(sorry, that is not me this week), but you don't need too much VBA to get
this to work, so it might be good for you to try to learn it yourself.

--David


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David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
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