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Hi Guys

Brilliant Forum. I hope you can help me.

I bet this is dead easy but I have been sitting here for hours trying
to work out exactly how to do this.

What I am trying to do is to setup a presentation which expands menu
within the show. ie Sub Menus

For Example

Menu Item 1 Menu Item 1a
Menu Item 1b
Menu Item 1c

When I click on Menu Item 1, then a box appears at the side of this
with links to Menu Item 1a, b and c and so on. If I were to click on
Menu Item 2, then the Menu Item 1 sub menu would disappear. It would
be brilliant is I could also dim the other items on the main menu when
the sub menu is displayed.

I think that is it. It is really bugging me and I have now run out of
all options, although I didn't have that many in the first place.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Many Thanks

Paul
 
You could do it with links, where all your submenus are individual presentations, with links back to the main menu. An excellent tutorial on linking can be found at http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

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Hi Guys

Brilliant Forum. I hope you can help me.

I bet this is dead easy but I have been sitting here for hours trying
to work out exactly how to do this.

What I am trying to do is to setup a presentation which expands menu
within the show. ie Sub Menus

For Example

Menu Item 1 Menu Item 1a
Menu Item 1b
Menu Item 1c

When I click on Menu Item 1, then a box appears at the side of this
with links to Menu Item 1a, b and c and so on. If I were to click on
Menu Item 2, then the Menu Item 1 sub menu would disappear. It would
be brilliant is I could also dim the other items on the main menu when
the sub menu is displayed.

I think that is it. It is really bugging me and I have now run out of
all options, although I didn't have that many in the first place.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Many Thanks

Paul
 
Hi Paddy,

which version of PowerPoint do you use? Do you want to show the sub-menus
chronologically or do you want to be able to click on any of the menu items
in any order?

In PPT 2002/xp it would be possible to realise it with
"disappear"-animations: Set your animations so, that on mouseclick one
sub-menu appears and the previous one disappears. If you want to be free to
choose the order during your presentation, you'll have to use trigger
animations. You'll get a long list of animations in that case, but it should
be possible.

Regards,
Ute
 
Hi Ute

Thanks for the reply.

I am using Powerpoint 2000. Sorry should have put this into the
message. :-(

I would like to click on any of the menus and for the sub menu to
appear. I don't think the disappear animations option is available in
Powerpoint 2K.

Have you any other ideas ?

Many Thanks in advance

Paul
 
Paddy said:
Hi Ute

Thanks for the reply.

I am using Powerpoint 2000. Sorry should have put this into the
message. :-(

I would like to click on any of the menus and for the sub menu to
appear. I don't think the disappear animations option is available in
Powerpoint 2K.

Have you any other ideas ?

Many Thanks in advance

Paul
Click to expand...

Hi Paul,

I think it will be best then to follow Michael's solution and build separate
slides for each sub-menu and link them forwards and backwards with
hyperlinks.

Don't use the text placeholder for your menu, but use separate text boxes as
hyperlinks. (So you avoid underlined hyperlink-text.)

Regards,
Ute
 
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