Action button question - PPT 2003

[Guest]

Is there anyway to setup action buttons text links so it does not underline
text?

I have six bullets with certain words I want action buttons for a different
slide. I do no want the words underlined when I select the text to link. I
know how to change the color of text, but not how to tell PPT not to
underline the word.

Thanks Mike Wallace

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

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wrote in
If you want to use Action Buttons, you do not need to have the words
underlined. Remove the hyperlink from the text and apply it to the
button itself (right click on the edge of the button and choose Action
Settings or Hyperlink). If you are not using Action Buttons, you are
basically stuck with the underline. PowerPoint does not give you any way
to remove it. However, there are some work-arounds, such as placing a
transparent shape on top of the text and setting that shape to be the
hyperlink instead of the text.
--David

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

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yo Mike!

Is there anyway to setup action buttons text links so it does not underline
text?

No. But ... if you draw a rectangle around the text and assign IT the action
setting/hyperlink you want, then make it invisible (ie, no fill, no line) you
should be good to go.

Depending on the version, you may want to group the shapes and the text so they
don't go wandering apart from one another. The older 97 viewer and PPT97 don't
see links in groups, so if you need to use either of them, skip the grouping
trick.

 

[Guest]

Yea thats what I figured. I have a paragraph in a briefing that I somehow
figured out how to link without the underline. Working on reproducing it,
but haven't figured it out. I'll post if I do figure it out. I have had
trouble with transparent boxes in different versions of ppt and viewers so
that is not the prefered way. Thanks 4 the response. MW

 

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Hello,

It sounds that, although there are workarounds, you would like this
(hyperlink text without underline) to be a lot easier to do in PowerPoint.

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Yea thats what I figured. I have a paragraph in a briefing that I somehow
figured out how to link without the underline. Working on reproducing it,
but haven't figured it out. I'll post if I do figure it out. I have had
trouble with transparent boxes in different versions of ppt and viewers so
that is not the prefered way.

If the paragraph can be popped into a text box all its own, then you can apply
the link to the text box and the text won't be underlined.