Color change with clicking but not when using slide number

[george.e.sullivan]

I have a Slide Show operating kind of like a Jeopardy game board. If I
have, for example

Google Facts

100
200
300
400
500


And if I click on 100 it goes to the question. When it comes back to
home slide the color for 100 is faded.

But if I enter the number 4, for example, and go to the 400 point
question and come
back to the main screen the 400 is still yellow and NOT faded.

Is there a way to get the use of the slide number/enter combo to change
the
color like the clicking does?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

The short answer is no.

The color changes because there is a color set for a followed hyperlink.
The slide-number/enter method does not follow a hyperlink. Clicking on a
hyperlink is what follows the hyperlink.

There is a possibility that you could use VBA to trap events in some way
that allows you to change the color of text after a slide-number/enter,
but I am not sure it is possible, and I am sure that it would be much
more trouble than it is worth.

Finally, you might want to search the Web for pre-existing Jeopardy
games, rather than starting from scratch. I just posted one on my site
(under "Examples From Real People") that someone sent me that uses VBA to
keep score, but there are many others out there as well.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

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[george.e.sullivan]

Thanks David,

I had a sneaking suspicion that I was going to get a NO.
And you are right, It would take a bit of work to actually
get something that might work.

Ummm...keeps score...I will have to definitely check that out.

Thanks again,
George