Powerpoint and Macro's (I think!)

[Guest]

I wonder if someone out there can help me with a project I am working on in PP?
I am trying to create a game Blockbusters - where you select an area of a
grid (made up of autoshapes) then are asked a question - the grid is all
hyperlinked to new slides which give the question, followed by the answer,
then an action button returns you to the grid (Sense so far?) What I would
like to do is colour the grid in team colours to show who answered the
question and I thought all I had to do was record a macro to fill with Red
then assign it to an action button, so that if the team gets the question
correct I will click the appropriate action button and the correct colour
will fill! But it's not working at all! the macro assigns itself to a
particular autoshape rather than the one I want to fill.

If this makes any sense to you at all and you can help me I would be very
very grateful.

Wendy

 

[Guest]

Wendy, if you click to edit the macro what does it look like?

My guess is it starts something like "activewindow.selection.shaperange"

If so it will never work in slide show mode as there can be no "selection"

You would need to write some vba which points to specific shapes

eg ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(3) _
..Fill.ForeColor.RGB = vbRed

If this makes no sense to you maybe you could use trigger emphasis
animations (if you have XP / 2003)
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Did that answer the question / help?
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html

 

[Guest]

Million thanks for taking the time to reply - still struggling with this one,
cant get the emphasis animation to work! will try the macro idea again -
looks like I may be writing 20 macro's. Thanks again

Wendy