"hovering" over a shape to change a color

[Adam]

Hey everybody, I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I am currently
changing a presentation of a powerpoint for the company that I work for. . .
On the slide that I am working on, I have a large circle with pieces of a
pie, similar to that of a pizza. Each slice of the pizza is a certain topic
to click on to link to more pages. I was asked to find out how to change the
color of each slice as i hover over that particular slice with my curser.
does anyone have any suggestions or could anyone help me? thanks so much to
anyone that responds..

 

[David Marcovitz]

Hey everybody, I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I am currently
changing a presentation of a powerpoint for the company that I work for. . .
On the slide that I am working on, I have a large circle with pieces of a
pie, similar to that of a pizza. Each slice of the pizza is a certain topic
to click on to link to more pages. I was asked to find out how to change the
color of each slice as i hover over that particular slice with my curser.
does anyone have any suggestions or could anyone help me? thanks so much to
anyone that responds..

I don't think this is possible without VBA. The closest you can come is to
use trigger animations, but that would require a mouse click. If there
aren't too many pie slices, another possible solution is to use multiple
slides. Here's how that would work:

(1) Create a slide with all your pie slices as separate shapes.
(2) Create an additional slide for each pie slice.
(3) Assign an Action Setting to each shape. This action setting is to be
activate on Mouse Over (not the default on mouse click). The action setting
is to hyperlink to the appropriate slide.
(4) Now, select all your pie slices and copy and paste them to the other
slides.
(5) Finally, on each slide, recolor the appropriate pie slice.

Now that I wrote this up, it doesn't seem that hard. VBA could do it all in
one slide, but I don't think it would be much easier.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Adam]

David, thanks so much for the response, I really appreciate it. I am not all
that familiar with technical terms and abbreviations with an application such
as this. What is VBA?
Adam

 

[David Marcovitz]

David, thanks so much for the response, I really appreciate it. I am not all
that familiar with technical terms and abbreviations with an application such
as this. What is VBA?
Adam

VBA is Visual Basic for Applications. It is the macro programming language
built into PowerPoint. If you don't know what it is, you probably want to
avoid it. You might want to look at the Programming PowerPoint section of
the PPT FAQ:

http://www.pptfaq.com/index.html#name_PROGRAMMING_POWERPOINT

--David
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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

This can be done with mouse over action settings that hyperlink to an
identical slide with the changed pie color. But it is a bit complex to do.

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Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

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