Toggle Hide/Show Text Boxes

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Seujan

Does anyone know how to hide/show text boxes in
PowerPoint?

Working on a slide that has a diagram on it. Want to be
able to click an area and have a text box appear with
further information. Then be able to click it again and
have it disappear. This slide will have more than one
area like that.

The reason custom animation will not work it is linear
and the text box needs to appear and disappear at the
presentor's discretion. So at any time, one, more or all
of them will be visible.

I appreciate your collective wisdom on this.

Seujan
 
If you have PowerPoint 2002 or newer, you can assign a trigger to an
animation of an object.
 
Triggers are your best bet, but if your version doesn't support that, you
might have to use VBA. It's not that hard to do in VBA, but if you've
never used VBA, it's a bit overwhelming.

One alternative to triggers and VBA: you could make a duplicate slide for
each text box you want to show. Put a different text box on each slide
and have your links go to different slides. This wouldn't allow you to
have more than one text box up at once, but the right set of hyperlinks
could make this do what you want.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
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