Triggers and Function keys

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Is there a way to use function keys as triggers rather than a hyperlink or other clickable area on the slide? Using the mouse to find and click a "hidden" link is very distracting to the presentation. Thanks for any assistance,

Melinda
 
Is there a way to use function keys as triggers rather than a hyperlink or
other clickable area on the slide? Using the mouse to find and click a
"hidden" link is very distracting to the presentation. Thanks for any
assistance,
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I don't know of any way to trigger with function keys but if you press the tab
key it takes you from one link/action to the next and faintly highlights the
"active" shape with a dotted line. Press Enter while the link is highlighted
to trigger it.
 
Melinda said:
Is there a way to use function keys as triggers rather than a hyperlink or
other clickable area on the slide? Using the mouse to find and click a
"hidden" link is very distracting to the presentation. <
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Melinda,

you can't assign actions or macros to any key in PowerPoint. But you could
use interactive Buttons or numbered squares lined up on one edge of your
slide to trigger your animations. Thus they are more clearly visible. Though
it's sometimes more "elegant" to hide those links.

Kind regards,
Ute
 
The TAB during a show seems to work very nicely. Who'd a thunk it?
Just a question on the order of the tabbing. It seems to start out
outlining the objects on the slide master. Does it go in the same order as
the object numbers that can be changed with "bring to front" |send to back"
etc.?

Pete
 
The TAB during a show seems to work very nicely. Who'd a thunk it?
Just a question on the order of the tabbing. It seems to start out
outlining the objects on the slide master. Does it go in the same order as
the object numbers that can be changed with "bring to front" |send to back"
etc.?
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Got it in one. Exactly. Except that objects on the master are *always* behind
those on the slide. Think of it as two different stacks of cards with a sheet of
glass in between. You can reorder the stuff on the master (the stack underneath
the glass) and the stuff on the slide (the stuff atop the glass) but you can't
shove anything THROUGH the glass w/o breaking it and probably cutting yourself and
getting gore all over the presentation and then you go home and your mom makes a
fuss and ... well, you just don't want to do that, y'know? ;-)
 
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