Questioin in Animation....

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I want to place a button on the slide which when clicked on changes
color (it is a START button for some other animation).

Any suggestions please ?

ZR
 
Hi,

There is an option on the Action Settings (Right Click for the button for
the Menu) to "Highlight Click" on mouse click. Would that help? Else, you
could put a shape over it, of a different colour, to animate in with a
Trigger. That is, you click on it and it brings in a shape over the same
one, as well as starting the animation sequence.

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Glen Millar
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Thank you,

I tried the first method but for some reason that option ("Highlight
Click" is dimmed on my system...???

Any idea why ?

ZR
 
I see what I was doing wrong...: I used an Action Button. It works
only with regural shapes. Anyway - it changes the color only for a
second and doesn't stay with the new color - which is what I wanted.

ZR
 
I don't know who at MS should take a note of that, but I belive that
somoeone ought to address this desirable feature in the next version
of PPT, namley -

It will be nice to be able to present an Action Button which

A. Has an embedded text on it: "GO" or "START"
B. Once clicked on, it would change colors or fade, and
change the text to, say: "STOP"

It is a very desirable button in presenting and cueing displayed
processes....!!!

Thanks,

ZR
 
Hi,

What I am trying to say is you can do this already with triggers.
Click to expand...

Indeed I can, but not with Action Buttons and not as simple as MS
could provide by a fully executable one option.

ZR
 
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