Keyboard Animation Triggers

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Heather

I want to make a series of animations dependent on pressing buttons on the
keyboard- for example one action if I press the number 1, a different action
triggered if I press the number 2. I do NOT want the action dependent on a
mouse click or roll-over. Is this possible?

Important points:
I am using PowerPoint 2003
I do not know VBA
I really appreciate your help-- Thank You!

Heather
 
Yes, possible. No, not without VBA or an add-in and some clever trickery.

You could use HotKey's add-in to create keyboard shortcuts to hidden slides
that would appear to be seamlessly integrated into the program.
Create hotkeys ( keyboard shortcuts ) to macros and menu items.
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00325.htm

It is a lot of work, are you sure you can't just add 4 or 5 boxes along the
bottom edge of the slide? It's much easier to do a trigger animation from a
shape..

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Hi Bill,
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that add-in, but it doesn't seem to do
what I was looking for.

I am trying to create a type of Family Feud game, with the presentation as
the game board. I do not want to try to keep score on the screen, I just
want to have a number of boxes that will go away on my command to reveal the
answer that is cleverly hidden beneath the box. Since I don't know which
order the answer will be in, I cannot create alternate pages with each
possibile sequence without using huge amounts of pages. I also don't want to
use auto shapes as triggers because its not quite as pretty. If I can just
hit a key and have it display on the screen, it would look like magic, NOT
like PowerPoint.

I have searched google, and can't find a game that does what I want. Are
there any other options?

Thanks so much for your time!
Heather
 
Hi Heather

What you want exactly is I think impossible without some very complex vba or
add in. This isn't exactly what you want but it might work:

Set up your animations triggered by action buttons (I know but keep reading!)
Give each button an action of hyperlink to "slide" and use the current slide
number so they don't go anywhere. Now drag them off slide so they can't be
seen.

In show mode press TAB once for the first action, twice for the second etc
and then press enter
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Heather,
Did you know you can set up a trigger to happen on the click of the shape
that has the animation? It doesn't have to happen on the click of a separate
shape. (I call these self-triggered animations.) If you right click the
animation effect for one of your boxes and go to effects, the shape itself
will show in the trigger list.

I am doing a webinar on triggering animations next week. Self-triggering
animations are one of the things I will be covering. Check out this page for
more information:
http://www.lockergnome.com/callkathy/2007/10/30/december-powerpoint-webinar-triggered-animations/

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