URGENT HELP Needed for Macros in PowerPoint 2000

[angiec50]

Hi

I have been given a PowerPoint presentation to sort out for someone who
wants to use it asap. The presentation is a bit like "Family Fortunes" , on
one slide there are 5 bullet points with answers and to the right are 3
crosses, the answers and crosses are covered over with Black Squares, when
the presentation is run, the user wants to be able to select one of the Black
Squares or a Cross and drag it down to the bottom.( supposedly this works on
her home PC but not on the work Laptop, it also doesnt work on mine). I
recorded a Macro for each square that moved it down to the bottom and
revealed the answer / cross. I assigned it an action setting, but when I
view the presentation it didnt work. Can anyone help?,

 

[Ute Simon]

I have been given a PowerPoint presentation to sort out for someone who

wants to use it asap. The presentation is a bit like "Family Fortunes" ,
on
one slide there are 5 bullet points with answers and to the right are 3
crosses, the answers and crosses are covered over with Black Squares, when
the presentation is run, the user wants to be able to select one of the
Black
Squares or a Cross and drag it down to the bottom.( supposedly this works
on
her home PC but not on the work Laptop, it also doesnt work on mine). I
recorded a Macro for each square that moved it down to the bottom and
revealed the answer / cross. I assigned it an action setting, but when I
view the presentation it didnt work. Can anyone help?,

While there is a Drag&Drop macro available, I would not use macros for that.
Just assign a "Disappear"-animation to the black squares and make it a
trigger animation, so that the squares disappear when clicked on. This works
in PowerPoint versions 2002 and newer.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[angiec50]

Hi

Thanks for the information, I was hoping there would be something easier, I
have even tried just changing the colour of the text so that it changes
colour when it is clicked on, rather than moving a box. However I am still
using Powerpoint 2000, the option for Dissapear is not in here. Any other
suggestions?

Thanks

Angie

 

[David Marcovitz]

There are a couple of possibilities:

(1) Macro security is not set properly. You probably want it set to
Medium. Then close the presentation and open it again.

(2) Your macro is not written properly. Did you record the macro to
create it, or did you write the code yourself? Recorded macros almost
never work in Slide Show View. Perhaps, you could post the code so we
could look at it.

Given that you are using 2000, my guess is that the only way to do what
you want to do is via macros (trigger animations could be used in 2002
or above).

--David

 

[angiec50]

Hi David

Yes I recorded the Macro and thought that it would be the case of writing
it, but I am not sure how to do this. This is what is currently showing in
Visual Basic after recording the macro. For some reason it is now only
showing the text below, so it isnt event recording the movements properly
now.....

Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro recorded 24/02/2009 by rdgac
'

End Sub

 

[David Marcovitz]

Yes, that is what happens when you record a macro for something that the
macro recorder can't record. You've got nothing there.

Briefly, when you record a macro, it generally does things by selecting
objects. In Slide Show View, you can't select anything so most recorded
macros won't work.

Given that, you have to find a way to identify the object that you want
to move. This could happen by clicking on an object and having a macro
associated with it. It could also happen by referring to the object's
name or number. If you go to my Web site and click on More Tricks, Trick
#5 has a couple of examples of moving objects in Slide Show View:

http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

--David