Making an image on slide master disappear when clicked

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kkaitan

I have an image on the slide master that I'd like to disappear when
clicked. I set a trigger to fire whenever it was clicked and initiate
an exit animation. This works fine, but whenever I move to a new slide
it's resurrected. Is there any way around this?

thanks,
Kyle
 
Hi Kyle

I sounds like you have set up your slide correctly. What you can now do is
add Multiple Masters and have one Master for the animated slide, and create
a new Master for the rest of your slides.

To do this, make a COPY of your presentation, then go to:

View > Master > Slide Master (where you can edit the Slide Masters)

To create a new Master which you can optimize for your other slides:

Insert > New Title Master

Once you have applied all of the formatting you require click the Close
button which will take you back into PowerPoint normal mode. Then you can go
to your other slides and apply your new Master to those slides. I suggest
you use the Formatting Palette to apply your slide because it's easy to
apply the new Design Template to a single slide (rather than your whole
presentation).

Is this what you were looking for Kyle?
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SPM,

Thanks for your reply. I don't think the method you suggested will
work, however, because I might need to click the image from any one of
my slides (that's partly why I put it on the master), and thereby make
it disappear. Applying the master to only one slide wouldn't do the
trick, I don't think. Once it's clicked I don't want to see it anymore,
but alas the master overrides it anytime I move to another slide. I
think I might need to resort to VBA, but I'm not sure of the best way
to set it up.

Any other tips you think I should try?

thanks,
Kyle
 
If its on the master and you want it to go away and stay away on click you
wil need vba

This is the code to run with an action setting on the shape on the master

Sub goway(oshp As Shape)
oshp.Visible = msoFalse
End Sub

To use the code press alt f11
Insert a module
copy and paste this code and the code below into the module

Return to powerpoint by clicking the powerpoint icon

At some stage you will want it back so run this from tools > macros

Sub comeback()
Dim oshp As Shape
For Each oshp In ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.Shapes
If oshp.Visible = msoFalse Then oshp.Visible = msoTrue
Next
End Sub

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