How DO i hide THE translucent bottom-left button panel that appears when mouse is moved while runnin

[keskarsanjit]

I have a hyperlinked object in the bottom-left of my ppt slide which i
need to click to get elsewhere. However this is too close to the
button panel that appears when i move the mouse and i am scared that i
may by mistake press the back arror instead of the hyperlinked object

Is there any way i can use the mouse but not allow the translucent
button panel at bottom-left to appear when i move the mouse
BTW - Is there any technical way to refer to this set of buttons?

 

[Sonia]

Go to Tools > Options > View and uncheck "Show popup toolbar".

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

What Sonia said, and if all your navigation is done through clicking
buttons and hyperlinks, you might want to go to Kiosk mode: Slide Show >
Set Up Show > Click on view at a kiosk.
--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/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

BTW - Is there any technical way to refer to this set of buttons?

MS calls it a "popup toolbar"

And though you can turn it off on your own PC, it may or may not appear on
other PCs when they play your presentation; it's a PowerPoint-level setting,
not a per-presentation setting (except that it's disabled when your
presentation is in Kiosk mode, so as David says: Recommended!)

So you might call it something a bit stronger than the terms MS has chosen.
Just let us know first so we can plug our ears ...