How do I make a trigger work across slides?

[Arlen]

I am trying to create a gameshow with a three-strikes-yer-out rule. The user
has to choose left or right 5 times in a row successfully. If they get it
right they move to slide two. If wrong, they go to a Wrong slide, and start
over, with 2 strikes to go. Can you throw 2 transparent boxes in front of
the wrong arrows that disappear one layer at a time when the Wrong arrow is
clicked from another slide?

I appreciate your time.

 

[David Marcovitz]

I am trying to create a gameshow with a three-strikes-yer-out rule. The user
has to choose left or right 5 times in a row successfully. If they get it
right they move to slide two. If wrong, they go to a Wrong slide, and start
over, with 2 strikes to go. Can you throw 2 transparent boxes in front of
the wrong arrows that disappear one layer at a time when the Wrong arrow is
clicked from another slide?

I appreciate your time.

You can do what you want with VBA, but I don't think you want to go
there so let's think about another approach. What if you had the trigger
happen from the slide you want and then jump to the Wrong slide. That is
you can have one button both trigger an action and jump to a slide, but
it can only trigger the action on the slide it is on, not on another slide.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Arlen]

Okay, so clicking the wrong answer could trigger a Disappear action on one
rectangle and jump to the wrong slide. But how does that layer stay gone
when you return to that slide to try again?

 

[David Marcovitz]

If you hyperlink back to it (don't advance to it from the previous
slide), the slide stays in the same state you left it.
--David

Okay, so clicking the wrong answer could trigger a Disappear action on one
rectangle and jump to the wrong slide. But how does that layer stay gone
when you return to that slide to try again?

--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland