hiding and showing text

[gwh]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

Hi everyone,

I have a two column, 7 row, table on a slide in powerpoint. In each of the 7 rows of the left column is a text label, then in each of the cells in the right column is the text that matches the label on the left.

I need to do the following:

When this slide appears, I need the labels in the left column to be visible but the text in the right column to be invisible. I'd like to be able to click on the text labels in the left column one at a time, and have the relevant text in the right column appear. So if I clicked on the text label in the first row, then the text in the right column of the first row would appear. Then the same would happen when I clicked on the label in the second row, etc. etc.

Is this possible to do in powerpoint? If so, can someone give me some direction?

Appreciate any help.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Unfortunatley, this is not easy in PowerPoint 2004. It is done easily
with trigger animations in the Windows version of PowerPoint....unless,
you really want to click in order. That is, if you will always click the
first one first and then the second and then ..., then you can just add
on-click entrance animations. If you want to go in any order, you'll
probably need VBA or a different version of PowerPoint.
--David

 

[gwh]

Thanks for the reply,

I'll be able to use Powerpoint 2007 on Windows to set it up so the trigger feature sounds good. I've taken the text out of the table and put each section into separate text boxes but I'm not sure how to get the triggers to work. Can you outline what I'd need to do?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

This tutorial is for PowerPoint 2002/2003 so some of what you see in
2007 will be a bit different, but it should give you the right idea:

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/cool/trigger01.html

You might also try the tutorials here:

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoint_hints_and_tips_tutorials.html#tri
ggers

I don't know if they have been updated for 2007 yet or not.

--David

 

[Guest]

Great - these tutorials are just what I need.

Thanks again.