Pop-up glossary with action buttons

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I have some action buttons on a slide. If the user clicks one, I want
powerpoint to show a text box. I then want the user to be able to hide the
pop-up text box. Right now this works the first time the user clicks the
action button, but if the user wants to see the text again it does not work.
Please help.
 
It sounds like you have this set up to work with triggers, which is probably
the best way to do it. What I would do is to make the exit animation for the
box be triggered by a click on the box itself, rather than on the action
button. Then, the action button always does the entrance animations, while
the box itself always does the exit animations.

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Thanks for the directions. I was using the triggers correctly. It turns out
there is a glitch because I was using sound too. I don't think I understand
that completely. I have a sound icon on the main slide (this narrates the
regular text if the user clicks it). The pop-up window has a sound to
narrate that text too. I found that if the main sound was still going when
the pop-up appeared, then both narrations were playing at the same time.
This was super confusing. I tried the option to "stop previous sound" when
the pop-up appears and this is what caused it to break. Perhaps you can tell
me how to stop the main sound (if its going), but keep going if there is
nothing playing. Additionally, this is a nuisance because the main sound
won't stop if you click the icon a second time. I believe this is a bug,
becuase I have it set to "Stop on click".
 
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