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About John Wilson
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Any questions related to PowerPoint including complex animations and vba coding.

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Using PowerPoint since PowerPoint 4 on a Mac to create professional presentations for education and industry. Currently MD of Technology Trish Ltd and webmaster of PowerPoint Alchemy (http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk)

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Microsoft Office Specialist (Powerpoint) Microsoft MVP Powerpoint 2007

 
   

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Microsoft PowerPoint - showing text by clicking at a point on screenshot/image powerpoint slide.


Expert: John Wilson - 8/31/2009

Question
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.

Answer
As you may know comments are meant to be used by joint editors in edit mode only. In recent versions they cannot be made to show when the presentation is shown. (I believe in very early versions this was possible)

To do what you want you will need to use triggered appear and disappear animations. There are several tutorials on triggers here.
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoint_hints_and_tips_tutorials.html#triggers
Look especially at "two animations one trigger"

Hope that helps

John

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