"Control Text Box" properties (transparency, highlighting text)

[Guest]

I'm using a control text box in my presentation because it allows me to use a
scrollbar to go over a bunch of text on one slide. I have some background
graphics in my presentation and would like to see them behind these text
boxes. Ive tried using BackStyle = Transparent but it doesn't work. The text
box is only transparent while I edit the slide - once I start the
presentation it goes back to opaque and uses whatever the BackColor is.

I'd like to be able to presrve the transparency that I see while editing,
during the actual presentation.

Also, I was wondering if there is a way to highlight / bold the text within
a control text box. It seems that any font setting that I play with effect
ALL of the text.. but I would like to Bold just a few titles and highlight
some paragraphs within the text box. Can this be done with the control text
box?


If these questions have no answers, I have another question. Are there other
ways of adding scrollbars in powerpoint besides using the active x control
boxes? I have news articles in my presentation, and although I can scroll
with the control text box, it looks ugly. Are there other ways to add
scrollbars and still maintain transparency and font control? Can I add pages
of charts and add a scrollbar to go back and forth between the charts easily?

thanks guys!!

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[dawgma]

Sorry about the repost

I posted on another forum.. and didn't realize it was linked to the same newsgroup.

 

[john wilson]

The control text box is very useful but as you suspect it wont allow you to
highlight and bold etc some of the text.

Only thing I can think of is a long text box with several shortish motion
paths starting at different heights. Lowest triggered by a click on the box
and others with subsequent clicks.

 

[Guest]

John,

that is how I used to do it. The text box would contain a lot of text,
extending beyond the page. I would set up a button that the user could
click, and each time they clicked it, the text box would move up one page at
a time. It's not useful in the long term, however, because other people who
are not familiar with animating powerpoint will need to update the document..
and when they change the text inside the animated boxes, the animations wont
line up anymore.

A scrollbox gives the ultimate freedom to change the residing material,
without affecting the functionality.