Making a Section Invisible Then Appear

[W. Watson]

Suppose I want to prompt students with addition questions one at a time as my
presentation unfolds.

I'd like a page like:

What is the answer to these additions?

1. 40+6
2. 38+9
3. 55+11

Initially, only the question should appear. At some point, I would like to click
somewhere so that problem 1. appears. When it is answered, then I would like 2.
to appear, and so on.
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

"The easiest way to refold a road map is differently."
--Jones's Rule of the Road

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Echo S]

So what is it you need help with? Setting the animation to make each answer
appear when you click on the question?

Which version of PPT are you using?

 

[W. Watson]

So what is it you need help with? Setting the animation to make each answer
appear when you click on the question?

Which version of PPT are you using?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Suppose I want to prompt students with addition questions one at a time as
my

presentation unfolds.

I'd like a page like:

What is the answer to these additions?

1. 40+6
2. 38+9
3. 55+11

Initially, only the question should appear. At some point, I would like to
click

somewhere so that problem 1. appears. When it is answered, then I would

like 2.

Office 97 with PP. I don't think I'm looking for animation. I want the items to
appear on the page (as the viewer) sees them when I press the control key or
whatever can do it. Think of it this way. Initially the page is blank. I press a
key, and the letter A appears. After some time at my discretion, I press a key
and B appears. They 'key' could be whatever makes this happen. It might be the
escape key, the mouse, a SHIFT key. I do not want to the audience to see the
next letter until I'm ready to show it to them.

--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

"The easiest way to refold a road map is differently."
--Jones's Rule of the Road

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Echo S]

Office 97 with PP. I don't think I'm looking for animation. I want the items to
appear on the page (as the viewer) sees them when I press the control key or
whatever can do it. Think of it this way. Initially the page is blank. I press a
key, and the letter A appears. After some time at my discretion, I press a key
and B appears. They 'key' could be whatever makes this happen. It might be the
escape key, the mouse, a SHIFT key. I do not want to the audience to see the
next letter until I'm ready to show it to them.

In PPT parlance, asking for something to disappear or appear at a given time
or on a given mouseclick is asking for animation.

Specifically, I think you want trigger animations -- where clicking an
object triggers another object to appear. Here's a quick tutorial:
http://www.echosvoice.com/triggers.htm

To use these, you will need to upgrade to PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) or 2003, as
97/2000 don't have triggers.

Also, if you want to use a keyboard shortcut to trigget this type of
animation, you'll have to use VBA. How are your coding skills? Oh, wait. You
can use the Tab key in slide show view to tab through the various triggers.
Then hit the Enter key to activate the trigger.

Finally, you can fake this in PPT 97/2000 if you don't need to be able to
make things appear in random order. You'd have to use an action setting or a
hyperlink to move to another slide in the presentation, and that slide would
have the appropriate items showing. You'd also want to put a back button on
that slide to go back to the "main selection slide." As with the triggers,
you'd use the Tab and Enter keys to navigate. If the items are all placed
properly on the additional slides, your audience won't realize that you're
moving to different slides instead of making items simply appear on one
slide.

 

[W. Watson]

items to


press a


a key



In PPT parlance, asking for something to disappear or appear at a given time
or on a given mouseclick is asking for animation.

Specifically, I think you want trigger animations -- where clicking an
object triggers another object to appear. Here's a quick tutorial:
http://www.echosvoice.com/triggers.htm

To use these, you will need to upgrade to PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) or 2003, as
97/2000 don't have triggers.

Also, if you want to use a keyboard shortcut to trigget this type of
animation, you'll have to use VBA. How are your coding skills? Oh, wait. You
can use the Tab key in slide show view to tab through the various triggers.
Then hit the Enter key to activate the trigger.

Finally, you can fake this in PPT 97/2000 if you don't need to be able to
make things appear in random order. You'd have to use an action setting or a
hyperlink to move to another slide in the presentation, and that slide would
have the appropriate items showing. You'd also want to put a back button on
that slide to go back to the "main selection slide." As with the triggers,
you'd use the Tab and Enter keys to navigate. If the items are all placed
properly on the additional slides, your audience won't realize that you're
moving to different slides instead of making items simply appear on one
slide.

Well, thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll just put the material on
successive pages. Probably four pages will probably do, with each page showing
the predecessors. I really do not have that many items. I'll consider upgrading
to the latest XP Pro PPT product some day when I've got some loose change. I
think it's running at some ridiculous amount to purchase--$400 or more.

 

[Echo S]

Well, thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll just put the material on
successive pages. Probably four pages will probably do, with each page showing
the predecessors. I really do not have that many items. I'll consider upgrading
to the latest XP Pro PPT product some day when I've got some loose change. I
think it's running at some ridiculous amount to purchase--$400 or more.

You'll probably just want to upgrade to 2003, then, or to whatever version
is released at the time. No sense in upgrading to an older version, as that
just means it will be out of date even more quickly.

Also, be sure to check upgrade eligibility, because you can save some money
that way. All the versions of Office 97 are qualifying products for the
Office 2003 Pro upgrade. All the versions of Office 97 are also qualifying
products for just the PowerPoint 2003 upgrade as well. The PPT 2003 upgrade
would cost $109.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Well, thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll just put the material

on successive pages. Probably four pages will probably do, with each
page showing the predecessors. I really do not have that many items.
I'll consider upgrading to the latest XP Pro PPT product some day when
I've got some loose change. I think it's running at some ridiculous
amount to purchase--$400 or more.

Here are a few more thoughts.

(1) You mentioned students, so I am assuming you are a teacher. Upgrading
to PowerPoint 2003 is much less than $400 if you look for educational
pricing (in 2003, it's called the Student and Teacher Edition, I
believe).

(2) I don't think you need the fancy animation techniques of 2003.
PowerPoint 97 does not offer triggers, but you can animate objects in
order. That is, from what you described, I think you just want A to come
in, then B, then C, then D, always in that order. If that is the case,
you can use custom animation to bring the objects in one at a time. If
they are separate text boxes, you can select one, choose Custom Animation
from the Slide Show menu, and set an animation (something simple as
appear is fine). Then repeat that for each object. If they are all
separate lines in one text box, you can click on the text box, choose
Custom Animation and set the settings to animate by First Level
Paragraphs.

(3) Your idea to put the information on separate pages will be fine, but
it will either not give you the results you want or cause you to work too
hard to get them.

--David

--
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.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Echo S]

(2) I don't think you need the fancy animation techniques of 2003.
PowerPoint 97 does not offer triggers, but you can animate objects in
order. That is, from what you described, I think you just want A to come
in, then B, then C, then D, always in that order. If that is the case,
you can use custom animation to bring the objects in one at a time. If
they are separate text boxes, you can select one, choose Custom Animation
from the Slide Show menu, and set an animation (something simple as
appear is fine). Then repeat that for each object. If they are all
separate lines in one text box, you can click on the text box, choose
Custom Animation and set the settings to animate by First Level
Paragraphs.

Ah, see, now I got the impression Wayne wanted to be able to select a
question at random, so I was approaching the problem from that angle.

I'm soooo glad we have newsgroups so we can all post based on our "take" of
the issue! It sure increases the chances of getting the best solution!

(3) Your idea to put the information on separate pages will be fine, but
it will either not give you the results you want or cause you to work too
hard to get them.

I agree it will cause a lot of work, especially if Wayne wants "random"
options. If he only needs the questions in a specific order, then using
PPT's regular animation as you described would absolutely be the best way.