Animation then advance

[Guest]

Hi - I have an interactive map set up in which I want the user to be able to
click an object, have it animate, and then advance by hyperlink to the
relevant slide.

I can do each of these separately, but put together the Action on
mouse-click hyperlink to slide happens first and cuts off the animation. If I
take out the Action the animation happens on mouse-click, but another click
is required to advance.

I know it would be possible to put the animation on timer, but I want the
map to be static until the user selects a topic to learn about.

I've been reading other posts on similar topics - the question has probably
been addressed before, but I haven't figured it out how to do it.

Many thanks,

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

This seems like it shoudl be easy, but I can't think of an easy way to do
this. I can think of two slightly difficult ways to do it:

(1) If you just have one or two animations on the map, then it might be
feasible to have duplicate slides. One slide has the map. All this slide
does is link to another that slide that looks the same. However, this
other slide has the animation automatically start and then advances to
the next slide. What this means is that each of your sections will have
an additional slide at the beginning with a map and an animation. This is
easy for one or two, but it might be more trouble than it is worth for
many more slides.

(2) This would be relatively easy with VBA. Instead of a regular
hyperlink, you could have VBA delay for a few seconds (giving the
triggered animation time to run) and then go to the other slide. This
would be very easy if you are comfortable with VBA and can comfortably
get macros to run in any environment you are sending the presentation.
Examples 8.4 and 8.5 on my site (http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/) give
examples of using timing and delays in VBA.

--David
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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/

 

[Guest]

I would use a series of custom shows
Slide 1 of each custom show being a duplicate of the map with a n "after
previous " animation and auto transition to the next slide needed. If you use
show and return then when the custom show ends you will automatically go back
to the initial map. There's atutorial on custom shows here under "How to use
custom shows ..." which may help even though its not exactly the same problem.
http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk

 

[Guest]

Got it! I went with the VBA option and the effect is just as I had hoped.
Thank you both for your suggestions.