hyperlink help

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alkzy

im working on a presentation and i have an image, when i
mouse over a certain part of the picture i want it to
have a like yellow aurora just to make it stick out more,
and when clicked i want it to hyperlink to another slide,
how would i do this, these are abstract pieces, they are
of a pc motherboard ect. so i want to select certain parts
 
The first thing to do is to put a shape over the area of the picture in
question. If you are using later versions of PowerPoint (2002 and 2003, I
think), you can set the transparency of the shape to something very high like
99 or 100%. Now, you can set the Action Settings for that shape (right click
and choose Action Settings). You have two choices, Mouse Over and Click.
For the click setting, you can simply set a hyperlink. The mouse over
setting will be much trickier because I don't think there is a normal way to
do this in PowerPoint. You might have to use some VBA. Something like the
following could work:

Sub ShowMyHighlight ()
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Slide.Shapes(4).Visible = True
End Sub

This will work if the 4th shape on the slide is the yellow aurora shape that
you would have drawn and hidden previously.

The problem with this is that you might want some more VBA to hide the shape
when the mouse moves away (activated by mouse overs on shapes surrounding
your transparent shape), and if you plan to return to the slide, you might
want to use some VBA to hide the aurora shape so it is not there when you
come back.

I just thought of a potentially easier solution without VBA. You could use
two slides that are identical except that one has the aurora shape and the
other not. Link to the slide without the aurora shape and have the same
transparent shape (as described above) have a mouse over effect that links to
the slide with the aurora shape. The click action setting for your aurora
shape can be your hyperlink to the other place. That should work and be
fairly easy to accomplish.

--David

David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
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