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| Thread ID: 72979 | 2006-10-03 09:11:00 | Is it possible to create a Powerpoint slideshow as complicated as this? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 488843 | 2006-10-03 09:11:00 | Dear all, I want to create a slide with sentences appearing when corresponding keys or mouse-clicks are pressed. For example, I might have Sentence 1 Sentence 2 Sentence 3 Sentence 4 I want to press, say, "Q" to have sentence 3 pop up, then "T" to have sentence 1 to pop up. These sentences are in no particular order (i.e. the sequence of these sentences appearing is random. I might choose to have sentence 3 pop up first before sentence 1. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 488844 | 2006-10-03 09:15:00 | You can have animated text appearing in whatever order you set. Have a read of the help files in Powerpoint under animation. | Jen (38) | ||
| 488845 | 2006-10-03 20:31:00 | Hi Jen. The thing is that the order is determined by the audience, not me. It is something like they might first mention Sentence 3 first, then I would click something to have it come out, then the audience might raise up Sentence 2, then I would click the corresponding buttons to have it pop up. As such, what I was asking whether or not the sequence can be determined as I like when I am presenting the powerpoint. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 488846 | 2006-10-03 21:27:00 | If you are experienced with Flash coding, create the above in the Flash file, then insert into PowerPoint. (Can't help any futher, as I don't know Flash coding.) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 488847 | 2006-10-03 22:07:00 | James - it can be done with "links", though I'm not too sure if it can be done with keystrokes - you might have to push a button on the screen instead. Somewhere in the animation settings you can define a "trigger" - though I can't actually remember exactly where. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 488848 | 2006-10-03 22:33:00 | Hi James. From memory, you can add action buttons to slide 1 which will allow you to jump to slide xxxx. In Slide view, go to the first slide and on the Drawing toolbar click AutoShapes. Choose the Action buttons and then the Custom button.On the slide, draw a rectangle shape - probably at the end of a sentence. Click the button for Hyperlink and then Slide, selecting whichever slide you want the sentence to relate to and then OK. In theory, while showing your first slide, you should be able to click on the new action button and this should open the hyperlinked slide. Probably clear as mud. I only ever used this to link the first slide to one other (a funny relating to a group member's birthday) but I can see no reason why you couldn't have a hyperlink action button at the end of each sentence, each ready to open a different slide in your set. Good luck. I realise that this is not as simple as just pressing a keyboard shortcut during the presentation, but slide 1 can be anything at all, with the screen not necessarily giving your audience a clue as to the nature of the shorcuts - as long as you remember which is which........ |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 488849 | 2006-10-03 22:43:00 | Thanks all! I will look into it, somebody and Scouse. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 488850 | 2006-10-03 23:09:00 | James - it can be done with "links", though I'm not too sure if it can be done with keystrokes - you might have to push a button on the screen instead. Somewhere in the animation settings you can define a "trigger" - though I can't actually remember exactly where. Hi someobody. I had tried that before, but the sentences appear as they are in order (i.e. I cannot define the sequence on the spot). Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 488851 | 2006-10-03 23:44:00 | Hi James. If you are able to set a hyperlink from slide 1 to any or all of the other slides, you might want to put another hyperlink on each of them to enable you to directly return to slide 1. 'kay? | Scouse (83) | ||
| 488852 | 2006-10-04 07:34:00 | Thanks Scouse, but I just had a change of mind. I think I would do this in HTML instead because it is much easier to organise the presentation. Could someone please post the HTML code here for sentences to appear when corresponding keys are pressed? Cheers :) |
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