Hyperlinks and animations

[Lou]

Hi,
I am a medical educator and do an audience participation program in a
"Jeopardy-like" format. I hyperlink from a topic on the "Jeopardy Board"
slide to a specific case with discussion and jpg slides on the condition and
on the last slide of the case, I hyperlink back to the Jeopardy Board slide.
Upon such return, I would like to have the boxes of the cases previously
selected be deleted, erased or shaded. I haven't figured a way to make that
happen and I would imagine a Macro or add-in might do it, but I am not very
skilled in writing VBA code nor have I been able to find a simple add-in to
"erase" the selcted slides upon return to the "Jeopardy Board" slide. Might
there be a PPT 2007 expert who can help a struggling pilgrim?
Thank you in advance,
Lou from Jacksonville

 

[John Wilson]

See if part 4 here helps

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoint_hints_and_tips_tutorials.html#triggers

 

[David Marcovitz]

You certainly could use a macro, and, having written the book on macros, I
wouldn't want to discourage you from doing that...BUT...

You might find that trigger animations work well for you. For the boxes with
the hyperlinks, set either an Emphasis (for some kind of shading) or Exit
(for disappearing) animation. Have that animation be triggered by the box
itself. That way, when you click on the box, in addition to the hyperlink it
will trigger itself to perform the animation. For information about trigger
animations, you can find lots of good tutorials, such as:

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/cool/trigger01.html

--David
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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Kevin Dufendach]

Glad to hear you're a medical educator using Jeopardy for teaching! It
just so happens that I am the same. I've created a Jeopardy template
that does everything you've mentioned. You can also import your
questions from an Excel file. It's available online at:

http://sites.google.com/site/dufmedical/jeopardy

You can also check out a bunch of my other presentations and medical
teaching ideas on the "Presentations" page.

Otherwise, if you wanted to do it yourself without using macros, you
should be able to just use text link hyperlinks and make sure your
"followed hyperlink" color is different from your "hyperlink" color,
and they should change the colors when you go to them. You might also
want to look at using the "slide master" to create elements you want
on each slide (such as a link back to the board).

Hope that helps,
Kevin