Allow ability to animate dropdown lists

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Am using PowerPoint to do web screen designs. Would like dropdown lists to
be active and allow me to select an item and bring me to a slide of my
choice. Is this doable? It would be great for prototyping and demoing to
groups of advisors/reviewers/usability testers in early low-fidelity
prototyping.



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Am using PowerPoint to do web screen designs. Would like dropdown lists to
be active and allow me to select an item and bring me to a slide of my
choice. Is this doable? It would be great for prototyping and demoing to
groups of advisors/reviewers/usability testers in early low-fidelity
prototyping.
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Do you want to create PPT presentations with this functionality or do you want PPT
presentations that've been converted to HTML to retain this functionality?

The former is possible with VBA.

I don't think the latter is possible.
 
For screen designs, if you want "real" functionality, try a product called
DemoShield. It's made by the InstallShield people and is a marvelous product
for doing software demos. I assume you're a product manager? If so, I was
also and that was the product that I used.
 
the former...a powerpoint presentation...though it would be cool in html.
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Heh ... there's nearly always some insanely klugistic way of doing anything in HTML.
And there are always half a dozen browsers and zillions of browser settings to make it stop
working. ;-)

But this in VBA, in PPT might be the ticket:

Option Explicit

Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
On Error Resume Next
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GotoSlide (CLng(ComboBox1))
MsgBox Err.Description
End Sub
Sub AddItemsToSelectedListBox()

Dim oShape As Shape
Dim X As Long
Set oShape = ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1)

With oShape.OLEFormat.Object
' Delete any existing items
.Clear
' Add items to the list - one for each slide
For X = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
.AddItem (CStr(X))
Next
' You could work with other properties of the list or combo box here as well
End With

End Sub
 
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