Text that disappears/reappears on click?

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I'm trying to make a simple one-slide presentation that's basically
just a large table of numbers. The idea is to be able to click any of
them and make them disappear, but it needs to be possible to click the
number again to bring it back in case a mistake is made. Currently I
have them set up as hyperlinks that don't go anywhere and the Followed
Hyperlink color is the same as the background, but as far as I'm aware
there's no way to reverse that color change without reloading the
presentation. Is it possible to make a hyperlink go back to its
original color after you've already used it? If not, does anyone have
any better ideas for the simplest way to do this?
 
Zek said:
I'm trying to make a simple one-slide presentation that's basically
just a large table of numbers. The idea is to be able to click any of
them and make them disappear, but it needs to be possible to click the
number again to bring it back in case a mistake is made. Currently I
have them set up as hyperlinks that don't go anywhere and the Followed
Hyperlink color is the same as the background, but as far as I'm aware
there's no way to reverse that color change without reloading the
presentation. Is it possible to make a hyperlink go back to its
original color after you've already used it? If not, does anyone have
any better ideas for the simplest way to do this?
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Which PowerPoint version are you using? In 2002/xp and 2003 this can be done
easily with Trigger animations: Click on the object itself makes it
disappear with one of the Exit animations, click on a background colored
object underneath makes the number appear again with an Entrance animation.

Kind regards,
Ute
 
Ute Simon said:
Which PowerPoint version are you using? In 2002/xp and 2003 this can be done
easily with Trigger animations: Click on the object itself makes it
disappear with one of the Exit animations, click on a background colored
object underneath makes the number appear again with an Entrance animation.

Kind regards,
Ute
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I have 2002, so that should work, but a couple questions:

1.) Is there any fast way to do this to a large number of objects? The
table has 350 cells so you can imagine that I'm not wild about the
idea of repeating the procedure for each one. It's also rather
difficult to manage all the selections on the screen with that many
pairs of objects on top of eachother, is there a list of objects on
the slide or something to make selecting them easier?

2.) Ideally each of them needs to be able to disappear and reappear an
indefinite number of times, is it possible for the Exit and Entrance
animations to work multiple times for one object?
 
Zek said:
I have 2002, so that should work, but a couple questions:

1.) Is there any fast way to do this to a large number of objects? The
table has 350 cells so you can imagine that I'm not wild about the
idea of repeating the procedure for each one. It's also rather
difficult to manage all the selections on the screen with that many
pairs of objects on top of eachother, is there a list of objects on
the slide or something to make selecting them easier?

2.) Ideally each of them needs to be able to disappear and reappear an
indefinite number of times, is it possible for the Exit and Entrance
animations to work multiple times for one object?
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Re. 1.: I think you need a VBA macro to automate it, but I am not the right
person to write one. I should learn more about programming myself, sorry.

Re. 2.: Yes, that should work repeatedly.

Kind regards,
Ute
 
Sorry for the delay. As of now I have each of the 350 entries in one
table(ungrouped into text boxes) and they each have 3 exit trigger
animations on them, since it wouldn't repeat with just one. This works
fine so far, but when I run the slideshow it suffers from serious
slowdown, taking anywhere from 1-5 seconds to respond to a click. If
this is a side effect of having so many triggers, I can only imagine
what it will do when I double the amount by adding the Enter
animations. Is Powerpoint just not capable of handling so many things
in one slide, or is there another problem? Any suggestions to either
fix the slowdown or seriously cut down on the number of animations to
achieve the effect?
 
Zek said:
Sorry for the delay. As of now I have each of the 350 entries in one
table(ungrouped into text boxes) and they each have 3 exit trigger
animations on them, since it wouldn't repeat with just one. This works
fine so far, but when I run the slideshow it suffers from serious
slowdown, taking anywhere from 1-5 seconds to respond to a click. If
this is a side effect of having so many triggers, I can only imagine
what it will do when I double the amount by adding the Enter
animations. Is Powerpoint just not capable of handling so many things
in one slide, or is there another problem? Any suggestions to either
fix the slowdown or seriously cut down on the number of animations to
achieve the effect?
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Zek,

I don't quite understand why you need THREE exit trigger animations. Of
course you can't repeat an exit animation, if the object is already gone.
Thats why I suggested to place two objects on top of each other: Click on
the (colored) top one - it disappears. Click on the bottom one (in
background color) - the top one reappears. Thus combine exit and entrance
animations in pairs.

Regarding the slowdown: Of course there's a lot of stuff on your slide. I
haven't handled that amount myself yet, so I can't compare. But you can
choose animations which less computing capacity than others: Stick to simple
exit animations like disappear, wipe, blinds, etc. Everything including a
fade and change color may take longer.

Kind regards,
Ute
 
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