Buttons toggle button change color

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Is there a way to have a toggle button change color when depressed? Or is
there a way to have a trigger button change back to its first color without
re starting the slide show?
 
All of this is possible with VBA, but you can probably do it with
animation triggers as well. I'm confused about one point. What do you
mean by a trigger button? How did this button change color in the first
place? Are you talking about clickable text?
--David

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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/
 
I have set a shape to change from red to green when it is triggered by
clicking on it. I want to be able to make it go back to red by clicking on
it again.
I also know nothing about VBA

Thanks for the quick response.
 
I have set a shape to change from red to green when it is triggered by
clicking on it. I want to be able to make it go back to red by clicking on
it again.
Click to expand...

That's done quickly. Assign a second emphasis animation to the shape to
change fill color to red, set it to start on mouseclick. In the Animation
task pane drag this animation just below the other change-color animation.
Now the trigger works for both animations: First click makes it change to
green, second makes it change to red, and you can start over again and again
....

Kind regards,
Ute
 
Ok that works. Maybe I am missing something though. It only works once. I
can change it form red to green and back again, but hen it dosen't repeat.
Sorry of what must seam liek obvious questions.
 
That's strange because it does repeat for me. Have you set both
animations to trigger on a click of the shape itself? Perhaps one of your
animations is set to happen as part of the animation sequence, not to be
triggered by a click of the object.
--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/
 
Both are set to trigger on the shape itself. There are set on click and
duration is set to end of show. I can tell I am close, but missing something
easy.

I am running P.P. 2002 if that makes a difference?
 
I don't see any options for "duration." Do you mean you have the
"repeat" set to "end of slide"? That would be problematic. Set the value
for "repeat" to "none" and it should work for you.
--David

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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/
 
Well that was close. I just removed the animation and started fresh. No it
works like a charm. Thanks all for you help.
 
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