10-04-2003 22:36									#1
	Hanging my head in shame...Computer Help Needed Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

:sigh:

I can design a website, I can make graphic art, I can troubleshoot, build you a database, and even do basic programming...

...but I can't figure out something in PowerPoint. Not even something difficult, I'm sure.

I don't often use powerpoint...ok...I never use powerpoint...I hate it and I think it's cheap, but I have to use it for something...and I can't figure out how to get it so that you click and the slide doesn't change, but another part of the slide which was hidden becomes viewable. However, this isn't always text. Sometimes it's more than just text (images or lines and junk)

For example...the full slide would look like this...

TITLE
A: Blah blah blah
B: blah blah blah blah
C: blah

But I want it to go...

TITLE

:click:

TITLE
A: Blah blah blah

:click:

TITLE
A: Blah blah blah
B: blah blah blah blah

:click:

TITLE
A: Blah blah blah
B: blah blah blah blah
C: blah

:click:

--next slide--

This is very simplified, of course, as i'm not just working with bulleted points...and the stuff will be all over the page (not in a nice neat order as described above) but you get the idea (I hope)

Please help!!

Thanks

	10-04-2003 22:42									#2
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Goto: Slide Show- Custom Animation

Select the text you want to enter that way in the "check to animate slide objects"

then, under "order and timing" check "on mouse click"

then, click OK

	10-04-2003 22:44									#3
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anyway I can get it to appear without animation?

	10-04-2003 22:45									#4
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nm, I got it. Japher you are my new God.

	10-04-2003 22:46									#5
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and i can't even write a web page

	10-04-2003 22:48									#6
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anyway to make "appear" the default so I don't have to change each one from "fly" to "Appear"? Waste of my ****ing time...

	10-04-2003 22:55									#7
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don't know how to adjust defaults...

	10-04-2003 23:09									#8
	Put an end to popups!

it's cool, you've been a big enough help just with that one post Thanks again...for some reason I couldn't find any info about it in the help files.

	11-04-2003 01:09									#9
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Beware though, if there is a possbility that you will be forced to do the presentation on a computer with a different version of powerpoint (or worse, on a mac), get rid of all animations as soon as ossible. For some reason, animations doesn;t seem to be read in the same way by different versions... If that is the case, the best way to fake an animation is to take the complete slide and make a copy. On the first copy, delete the stuff you want appearing in the second.

On any reasonably fast comuter no one can detect the slide transition, so it simply looks like the extra information appears on the first slide.

	11-04-2003 01:37									#10
	Put an end to popups!

i was getting desparate, so I was going to do that Gnu. But it should be fine as is. I haven't had a problem yet.

Can anyone tell me how to get it so that clicking a slide WON'T advance to the next slide, only clicking the appropriate button/link on the slide will get it to move?

Thanks

	11-04-2003 01:53									#11
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quote: Originally posted by CyberGnu Beware though, if there is a possbility that you will be forced to do the presentation on a computer with a different version of powerpoint (or worse, on a mac), get rid of all animations as soon as ossible. For some reason, animations doesn;t seem to be read in the same way by different versions... I

Powerpoint X seems to work fine with all the Windows generated stuff I've tried. The only problem would be the quicktime transitions - but these are so naff people shouldn't use them.

	11-04-2003 02:33									#12
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quote: Can anyone tell me how to get it so that clicking a slide WON'T advance to the next slide, only clicking the appropriate button/link on the slide will get it to move?

that would be kewl... I have no idea how to do that. However, if you turn off slide transitions you can click your mouse all you want and nothing happens. In order to advance the slide you need to hit the "N" key or space bar to get the next thing to happen. Not sure if that helps...

	11-04-2003 08:58									#13
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You set an action for the text or graphic, and define the action as "advance to next slide."