Text box into slideshow mode

[Guest]

Help!!! I have spent the last few hours trying to input text from one slide
to another slide whilst in slideshow mode.

I have worked out you use the control toolbox and create a text box but I
cannot work out how to move the sentence I type in to to another slide.

I know you have to use visual basic but I have no idea how to use this.

I am a teacher and would like my pupils to input sentences in 6 separate
slides and the final slide will be their sentences all together.

Thanks in advace for any help

Steve

 

[Bill Foley]

You would need to reference your OLE objects using sample code like at:

http://skp.mvps.org/ppt00042.htm

Then you would need to name a shape on your last slide and have it equal to
concatenated variables of the other text boxes. If you send me a sample,
maybe I can put something together for you.

Send it to:

pttinc at itexas dot net

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Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
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[Guest]

Thanks Bill I will look into it. I have sent you the file I have been working
on so you can see the problem first hand and any help would be gratefully
recieved. As a teacher I think powerpoint needs simplifying to enable user
input and interactivity as more and more teachers will be needing pupils to
input data in a friendly way !!!

Steve

 

[Bill Foley]

I received it and sent it to you. Unfortunately, PowerPoint wasn't ever
really designed for interactivity. It is more of a presentation program.
It just happens to have a lot of the coding tools available from other
Office products. There really isn't an easy way to get this type of
interactivity without some coding.

Hope it works for you. By the way, I do have some sample code on my FAQ
page relating to radio buttons and option buttons:

http://www.pttinc.com/ppt_faq9.html

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
www.pttinc.com
Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
"Success, something you measure when you are through succeeding."

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

If what Bill sent you isn't enough for you, you might check out some of
the examples at my site:

http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

I don't have any examples that use the control toolbox, but I do have
examples that let you type (using a dialog box that pops up) during slide
show view and then summarize at the end. Check out Examples 7.9 and 8.11.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/