object colour change.

[Guest]

I have a nice PPT presentation that contains a flow chart. When someone
clicks on a flowchart symbol they aretaken to another slide which outlines
the tasks needed to complete this operation. These slides then have a 'back'
button that takes them back to the flowchart. Two questions:

a) The 'back' button sometimes needs to go back to the last but one slide
viewed and not just last slide viewed. How can I acheive this (maybe with
VBA) ?

b) When they return to the flowchart I want the symbol they last clicked on
to be greyed out, missing, or a different colour. Any Ideas on how to acheive
this??

Many thanks

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

RE: Linking Problem...
Put the back buttons are on the individual slides, then use PPT's hyperlink
capabilities to point to the actual side you want to return to (instead of
"Last Slide Viewed).

For the color change...
If you are using PPT 2002 or later, you can use triggers in combination with
your hyperlinks to make the object change or disappear. For more on
triggering animations, see these articles:
http://www.powerpointanswers.com/article1056.html
http://www.indezine.com/products/pow...trigger01.html
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...873001033.aspx

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[Guest]

The linking problem is still an issue because I don't always want to link
back to the same slide. I just want to be able to go back to the last but one
viewed slide.

The colour change is also still and issue. When the user clicks on the
object, the animation to make it disappear isn't seen as the target slide is
displayed immediately and when you back to the original slide the object is
still visible.

Anyone have any VBA code to acheive the desired results???