On mouse click

[Francis Hookham]

Still a newboy - Ok - I understand how to set a mouse click on a text block
or object in a slide to take me to a particular slide...

....but how can I set the mouse click anywhere within several (not all)
slides to go to a particular slide without having to be selective where I
click on the slide?

I do know about keyboard left/right arrows and mouse wheelies - I just have
not found how to control the mouse click within a particular slide

Francis Hookham

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Francis

Would adding a rectangle autoshape, that covers the whole slide, with 'no
fill, no outline' color to the rectangle work for you?

So you could assign an 'action setting' to the rectangle, to jump to a
particular slide.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Francis Hookham]

Thanks TAJ - I thought of that and had already put a small area in bottom
right corner to do just that BUT it would be a nuisance to have a whole page
invisible rectangle covering everything while editing the slides.

If I rely on the small rectagle I am sure to unthinkingly click elsewhere
during a slide show!

Yes, I can enlarge the small rectangle to full page when I have finished
construction but I just hoped there was a way of asigning a hyperlink to a
whole slide as one can to an object.

Please let me know if you have any further thoughts.

Francis Hookham

PS - please also see:
Thumbnails in normal left frame preview (19 Aug)
- I found nothing to help where Terry Irvin suggested.

PP 2004 on Mac and PP 2000 on the PC

 

[John Wilson]

Have you thought about using a "normal" next slide click and then giving the
next slide a MOUSEOVER hyperlink (full slide rectangle) to the slide in
question
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[Kathy Jacobs]

Make the rectangle full slide size, then use Send to Back (off the right
click menu or the Draw--> Order) to send the rectangle all the way to the
back. Your other objects will still be clickable, but you will be able to
click any blank area and go to the slide you want. (To make it even easier,
you can put the rectangle on the slide master, then do the send to back. It
will be behind everything else you add to the slide.)

Another option is to remove the check from Advance on Mouse Click from the
Transitions Task Pane. Without this option, you won't go anywhere from the
slide unless you click on a specifically linked object.

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[Francis Hookham]

Thanks John and Kathy.

I suppose I shall have to go along the full size invisible object - just
seems messy and a pity mouse click is not available in the slide itself.

I really am grateful for your prompt help.

Francis Hookham