SCREEN TIPS IN HYPERLINKS

[POWERPOINTUSERPERSON]

OK, So I have a bunch of slides and a bunch of images on each slide. I wanted
to be able to hover the mouse over all of these images and for text to
appear. The only way I figured out to do this was to hyperlink the image to
the same slide that it is on and to enter text into a screen tip. Several
problems: 1) This process is kind of tedious, is there a way to do this
without hyperlinking the slide to itself? I'd like to be able to just click
the image and enter the text (if it can be that easy) 2) I read the following
response to someone's post and I don't know what a macro is... apparently I
need I "macro" if I want to format the screen tip text... what is it, and can
it also help me do other things?
Here's that post:
Subject: Re: Screen tips 10/26/2006 7:39 AM PST
By: David M. Marcovitz In: microsoft.public.powerpoint
What you want to do is possible, but it would require VBA. A VBA macro
can be triggered on mouse over, and that macro can be set to show a
regular (full-formatted) text box.
--David
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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/

THANKS!

 

[POWERPOINTUSERPERSON]

So what is a VBA? and how does it work?

AND~ In case someone didn't understand my original question i will
re-clarify... So take one of my slides for example. I have one slide and on
it there are five pictures. When you watch the presentation and hover the
mouse over the images you see the specific text pertianing to each image...
But I have so many slides like this, and every time I enter the screen tip
(which require hyperlinking the image to the slide it is on) it is just sooo
tedious... so is there something to be done??? Another way to achieve the
pop-up text affect, or a shortcut of some sort????

THaanks

 

[POWERPOINTUSERPERSON]

Also, it may just be because I made a mistake here and there... BUT it seems
to me that after rearranging a powerpoint presentations slides (which are all
hypelrinked to themselves), that the hyperlinks are kind of messed up and
don't link to the slides they originally linked to... is it possible that
this is a defect in the program or do you think I did something wrong?

THANKS

 

[John Wilson]

The hyperlinks should be OK if you rearrange.

You might want to read this page it could save you a lot of time!
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshyperlinknowhere.html
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Did that answer the question / help?
___________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html
email john AT technologytrish.co.uk

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

If you don't know anything about VBA, it's probably more trouble than
it's worth to learn it, but you can start with the Programming PowerPoint
section of the FAQ:

http://www.pptfaq.com/#name_PROGRAMMING_POWERPOINT

--David

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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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