Adding captions to pictures in powerpoint presentation?

[Joe Blo]

I have a presentation where one slide is a collage of pictures. I
would like a text box to appear pointing to the specific picture, each
time I move the mouse over that picture or I click on the picture. I
have seen this done before in a powerpoint presentation, but have been
unable to figure out how to implement it. Does anyone have any clues.
Thanks

 

[Glen Millar]

Joe,

Various methods may help.

You could use an action setting set to mouse over, and then hyperlink to a
slide with the text box over the picture. Then some sort of similar area on
the slide to mouse over, to go back to last slide viewed.

1. This link talks in part about Action Settings:

"Some files can contain viruses ..." message when clicking a hyperlink
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00406.htm

2. This link is about a cool Vba method:

Go there, Come back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00408.htm

3. You can also do this using some info from Sonia:

http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/quicktricks.htm

And look for number 16.

Else, please holler back for more help.

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Glen Millar
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[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

It sounds that, although there are workarounds, you would like this to be a
lot easier to do in PowerPoint.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions for how to
make this easier to do in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your feedback
(in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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