How do you change a button color after clicking on it?

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I'm working on a power point presentation that appears like I'm playing the
game Jeopardy. I have buttons inserted on the screen that when clicking on
them will take you to various other screens. And then when I come back to the
main screen with all the buttons, I would like the button that I have clicked
on to either show in a different color or just something that I will be able
to tell that a certain button has already been clicked on. Is this possible?

The version of power point I'm using is 2003.
 
The easiest thing to do is use trigger animations. You could either
trigger another button to enter that looks just like the first but in a
different color, or you could use an emphasis effect to change the color
(I think; I haven't done this). I would probably prefer the first because
the new button that comes in can be set to not perform the action of the
first. If triggers don't offer you enough control, you will have to
resort to VBA, but I don't think that will be necessary in this case. You
might also look at Echo's example here:

http://www.echosvoice.com/jeopardy.htm

--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/
 
What I would like to happen, is that when I click on the button it takes me
to a screen where the writing is bigger and fills the whole screen. Then I
would click on a hyperlinked button to take me bake to the first screen. At
this point the button that I clicked on would then be different from the
others that haven't been selected. I didn't see an example of that on the
website you provided. And I'm not really sure what you mean by VBA.
 
You just need a regular hyperlink. You can create the screen you want
with the bigger writing. Put a button on that screen that hyperlinks to
the big-writing screen. On the big-writing screen, put a button, and set
the Action Settings of that button to either hyperlink back to the
original or to Last Slide Viewed. Now, the trick is that the button that
links to the big-writing screen, should have a custom animation set.
Right click on it and choose Custom Animation. On the task pane on the
right, choose an exit effect (whatever effect you like; disappear is good
enough). What you need to do next is click on the arrow next to the item
you just animated in the task pane and choose Timing. In the dialog box
that pops up, click on Triggers. Click on Start effect on click of... and
in the box choose the shape that you are clicking which is the same one
that takes you to the big-writing slide and that you want to disappear.
Now, when you click on that shape it will take you to another slide and
disappear. When you come back to the slide, it will be gone.

By the way, by VBA I mean the scripting language that is built into
PowerPoint. If you have to ask, you probably don't want to use it. If you
do want to use it, you can check out examples at my site:

http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

--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/
 
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