Custom Animation

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Hi,

I have some custom animation on some call out boxes, so that when I click on
a link in my presentation a call out box appears with information in it. I
have several of these on my page.

But, when I click on another link to bring another call out box up, the
previous call out box stays there, is there anyway I can make it dissapear if
I click anywhere on the screen? For example if I click on another link to
bring a new call out box up the previous one dissapears. I can do this if I
choose to click on the links in a specific order but it restricts me in what
order I click on these links.
 
tclr said:
Hi,

I have some custom animation on some call out boxes, so that when I click on
a link in my presentation a call out box appears with information in it. I
have several of these on my page.

But, when I click on another link to bring another call out box up, the
previous call out box stays there, is there anyway I can make it dissapear if
I click anywhere on the screen? For example if I click on another link to
bring a new call out box up the previous one dissapears. I can do this if I
choose to click on the links in a specific order but it restricts me in what
order I click on these links.
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If I understand you correctly, you always want one call out box to show
at a time. While this could be done with trigger animations, it would be
very complicated (you would need each button to have the appropriate box
appear and all the others disappear. For this situation, I think that a
better solution would be to create your slide just the way you want it
with all the call out boxes. Then duplicate the slide a bunch of times.
Delete each call out box except the one you want on each slide. Now,
instead of doing an animation, your buttons will jump to a slide. The
audience will never know the difference.

--David
 
David Marcovitz said:
If I understand you correctly, you always want one call out box to show
at a time. While this could be done with trigger animations, it would be
very complicated (you would need each button to have the appropriate box
appear and all the others disappear. For this situation, I think that a
better solution would be to create your slide just the way you want it
with all the call out boxes. Then duplicate the slide a bunch of times.
Delete each call out box except the one you want on each slide. Now,
instead of doing an animation, your buttons will jump to a slide. The
audience will never know the difference.

--David

--
David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
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Thats right. I'm using triggers to doit, but whe i go to create a custom
animation for the exit of the callout box (so that if I click anywhere it
dissapears) it is placed before the animation that makes it appear. And if I
re-order the animation and put it after the animation with the trigger that
makes the box appear, it gets assigned to that trigger to. Is there no way of
sectioning it off in the custom animation list?
 
tclr said:
Thats right. I'm using triggers to doit, but whe i go to create a custom
animation for the exit of the callout box (so that if I click anywhere it
dissapears) it is placed before the animation that makes it appear. And if I
re-order the animation and put it after the animation with the trigger that
makes the box appear, it gets assigned to that trigger to. Is there no way of
sectioning it off in the custom animation list?
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The thing with triggers is that they can happen at any time so I don't
think there is a way of "sectioning it off." I'm still try to get my
mind around what you want to do, and I'm still not convinced that
separate slides wouldn't be better. What I imagined was that you had
several buttons. When you click on a button, you want a call-out box to
appear. When you click on another button, you want the first call-out
box to disappear and another one to appear. If that is the case and you
have more than three or four of these, I think separate slides would be
the best. If you wanted to use triggers, you would need each callout box
to have one entrance animation (triggered by its button) and several
exit animations (each triggered by each of the other buttons).

However, it seems that you want a click that is not on a button to cause
the call-out boxes to disappear. In that case, you could have a 99%
transparent shape that is in front of everything but your buttons. Each
call-out box would have an exit animation that is triggered by that
shape.

--David
 
David Marcovitz said:
The thing with triggers is that they can happen at any time so I don't
think there is a way of "sectioning it off." I'm still try to get my
mind around what you want to do, and I'm still not convinced that
separate slides wouldn't be better. What I imagined was that you had
several buttons. When you click on a button, you want a call-out box to
appear. When you click on another button, you want the first call-out
box to disappear and another one to appear. If that is the case and you
have more than three or four of these, I think separate slides would be
the best. If you wanted to use triggers, you would need each callout box
to have one entrance animation (triggered by its button) and several
exit animations (each triggered by each of the other buttons).

However, it seems that you want a click that is not on a button to cause
the call-out boxes to disappear. In that case, you could have a 99%
transparent shape that is in front of everything but your buttons. Each
call-out box would have an exit animation that is triggered by that
shape.

--David

--
David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
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I was thinking.. is there a way to use hot spots in Powerpoint, like in
software such as Authorware? So that when I hover the cursor over a link a
text box would appear witn info in it?
 
David Marcovitz said:
Try quick trick #16 at this site:

http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/quicktricks.htm

You don't get much flexibility with the formatting the text, but it
gives you the basic functionality.


--
David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
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Thanks I'll give that a try.

One more question while I'm here - How do I give my slides names in
Powerpoint 2007? I have quite a few, and I'm hyperlinking within my piece and
its much easier to do if my slides have relevant names, instead of 'slide 1',
'slide 2' etc.. I've tried right clicking and looking for the option but it
doesn't seem to be there.
 
PPT uses the slide titles for this, so you need to use a layout that has a
title placeholder, and then you need to enter the text in the title
placeholder (where it says "click to add title").

To change a slide layout in PPT 2007, on the Home tab, click Layout and
choose one with a title -- the one called "Title Only" may be a good option
for you.

Then, after you've added the text to the Title Placeholder, you can drag the
placeholder off the top edge of the slide and it won't show in the
presentation. You can also do this on the slide layout, but it will affect
all slides based on that layout. To edit the layouts, go to View| Slide
Master and make the change on the appropriate layout. Once you close out of
Slide Master view, you may (or may not) need to use the Reset button on the
Home tab to reapply the slide layouts to your slides.
 
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