non-linear activation of animations by mouse over or field click

[Guest]

Although PowerPoint allows user controlled movement through animations on a
slide by clicking the mouse button, the order is pre-set. The program would
be far more powerful and useful for interactive presentations if a field
(like a textbox or picture) could be clicked on leading to a specific
animation sequence. Ideally such control would extend to diagram animations
as well (at a minimum the inclusion of an option to ungroup diagram elements
would be helpful).

Although a hyperlink workaround is available, it is incredibly unwieldy to
make a new slide for each "animation".

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[Kathy Jacobs]

Dylan,
I suggest you check out "triggered" animations. They have been around since
PPT 2002, and allow you to do pretty much what you are looking to do. I have
several articles on my site that talk about how to set them up, with this
being the most basic:
Triggering Animations
http://www.onppt.com/ppt/article1056.html

You can find articles on other sites as well by googling "powerpoint trigger
animation" (without the quotes).
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[Guest]

Thanks, triggers do solve the general problem of non-linear animations.
Unfortunately, although the diagrams can be broken up into elements (e.g.
each oval or rectangle of information) for the purpose of appearing, only the
diagram as a whole can be used as a trigger. Each element cannot be its own
trigger. The obvious workaround is to create a transparent overlay for each
element that would function as a button for that element, although this
solution is somewhat time consuming.