Triggered actiosn do not stick on a custom show slide - is this true (read in)

[keskarsanjit]

I have compiled a quiz on ppt. I have a rule that teams can get a hint
on any one question duering the course of the quiz. I need to keep a
record of which team(s) have used this facility.

So i have hyperlinked to a custom show (show and return) containing
this one slide and have triggered a red spot to appear when i click
that team's name. But when i return to this slide when another team
decides to use a hint the previous red mark (of the team who have used
their facility)is gone.

Triggered actions do not stick on custom slides?
Any way it can be made to?

 

[Bill Foley]

If you are ready to tackle it (or have some tackle it for you), VBA can be
used to accomplish this. Setting a variable (blnHintUsed) to FALSE
initially, if a button is clicked, code runs that sets blnHintUsed to TRUE.
If TRUE, can make another object on a slide appear differently.

If interested, holler back. I might be able to come up with an example.
FYI - Folks won't be using the PPT Viewer to review your presentation, will
they? Because if so, the Viewer does not support VBA.

 

[keskarsanjit]

No ppt viewer will not be used...

Yes i would like to learn more about this but have no knowledge of VBA
and its application in ppt.

May i send you the relevant slides and take it from there. if not
feasible let me know what to do and i'll try and get a more compouter
literate friend do the needful (if he can)

Thanks

 

[Bill Foley]

I'll be happy to take a look at it. Send the applicable slides (can be
zipped) to:

wfoley1 at txu dot com

or

pttinc at itexas dot net

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

You can start learning about VBA from the PPT FAQ Programming PowerPoint
section:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/#PROGRAMMING_POWERPOINT

Bill has a lot of quiz information on his site, and I have a lot of quiz
examples on my site:

http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

Many of the examples do quizzes. I don't think that any of my examples
have exactly the functionality you describe, but some of the "Examples
From Real People" might.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
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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