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Microsoft PowerPoint - displaying text on clicking


Expert: Jessica L. - 8/31/2009

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Hi, i had a screen shot as a powerpoint slide. what i would like to do is if i click on something on the image/screen, it should display a text. I want to do this  at multiple points in the same screenshot/image with different texts. what i would like to know is the shortest way to do it. Let me explain what we can do to acheive this. on the "OnClick" event at a particular point in the screen shoot, we will go to the next slide (same structure as before but with comments dsplayed on it). For the second point on the "onclick event" we will go to a second new screen(same as the forst new scree but second comment will be displayed this time). nut i want to do these seperatley, like if i click on the second point in the screenshot first, i would be able to see it's text irrespective of the first one. hope you get my point. just like you know if you click on comments, it will display what ever is there in them. but the thing is i was not able to see those comments in full screen mode am using powerpoint03. i spent my almost whole day figuring this out. (I guess gates is nothing supporting this at this point.)

Answer
Hi Pati,

If I am understanding your question correctly, you want to make different sections of a screen shot clickable to go to different slides.  To do this, I believe your best bet would be to add text boxes over the areas that you want to be clickable.  You can make these text boxes appear transparent by not adding text or color after they are created.  

Follow theses steps to achieve this solution:
1 - Click on Insert on the top menu and select Text box
2 - Move the text box over the area you want to be clickable and adjust the size accordingly
3 - Right click on the text box and select Action Settings
4 - On the Mouse Click tab, select 'Hyperlink to' and select the slide you would like to link to and then click OK
5 - Repeat the above steps for each area you want to make clickable and linked

I hope this answers your question.  Please let me know if it does not.

Thanks!
Jessica

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