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"object action" unavailable
I am trying to give a picture and Action. I open the Action Settings
Dialogue and I can add a hyperlink OK but I can't run a makro or an "object action" as they are greyed out. Does anybody know why? I am trying to put an image on the Master slide which appears only when I mouse over it - perhaps there is another way to do this? I am using Powerpoint 2003. |
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"object action" unavailable
Object action does not apply to what you want to do. That is why it is
greyed out. Unfortunately, the thing you want is an animation trigger, but that only works on mouse click, not on mouse over. Mouse over allows you to hyperlink or run a macro (macro is greyed out, probably because you don't have any macros). If a macro is acceptable, you could put two objects on your master slide: one is a box that is 99% transparent, and the other is image you want to have show up. Then, you would have to write a macro that shows the object, and tie that the 99% transparent shape on mouse over. The other issue is that you would need to figure out how and when the image would be hidden. If macros won't work for you, you would need to kluge together a solution with hyperlinks. This will be harder if you want the image to be present on every slide. If you just want it for one slide, you can have two slides, one with the image and the other with the 99% transparent box. The 99% transparent box can be set to hyperlink to the other slide (with the image) on mouse over. --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/ =?Utf-8?B?S0FfYnJpYW4=?= wrote in : I am trying to give a picture and Action. I open the Action Settings Dialogue and I can add a hyperlink OK but I can't run a makro or an "object action" as they are greyed out. Does anybody know why? I am trying to put an image on the Master slide which appears only when I mouse over it - perhaps there is another way to do this? I am using Powerpoint 2003. |
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"object action" unavailable
I've similar problem that my Object Action is grayed out for all the objects
I've tried to use. That is, under: Action Settings Mouse Click Object Action - the radio button is grayed. I can't find any help in Help explaining what the Object Action drop box will allow me to do, but I'm hoping to find a way to let the user go to the next step within a slide without jumping to the next slide. I know the user can click on the slide to advance, but I'm giving the user a Random button on the bottom of each slide and would like to give them a way to keep their mouse-cursor in the same small area (that is, a close-by button) to click to the next step on the slide. Thank you in advance. "David M. Marcovitz" wrote: Object action does not apply to what you want to do. That is why it is greyed out. Unfortunately, the thing you want is an animation trigger, but that only works on mouse click, not on mouse over. Mouse over allows you to hyperlink or run a macro (macro is greyed out, probably because you don't have any macros). If a macro is acceptable, you could put two objects on your master slide: one is a box that is 99% transparent, and the other is image you want to have show up. Then, you would have to write a macro that shows the object, and tie that the 99% transparent shape on mouse over. The other issue is that you would need to figure out how and when the image would be hidden. If macros won't work for you, you would need to kluge together a solution with hyperlinks. This will be harder if you want the image to be present on every slide. If you just want it for one slide, you can have two slides, one with the image and the other with the 99% transparent box. The 99% transparent box can be set to hyperlink to the other slide (with the image) on mouse over. --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/ =?Utf-8?B?S0FfYnJpYW4=?= wrote in : I am trying to give a picture and Action. I open the Action Settings Dialogue and I can add a hyperlink OK but I can't run a makro or an "object action" as they are greyed out. Does anybody know why? I am trying to put an image on the Master slide which appears only when I mouse over it - perhaps there is another way to do this? I am using Powerpoint 2003. |
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"object action" unavailable
In article , JCHail wrote:
I've similar problem that my Object Action is grayed out for all the objects I've tried to use. That is, under: Action Settings Mouse Click Object Action - the radio button is grayed. Object Action only applies to OLE objects or movies and such, not to regular PPT shapes. I can't find any help in Help explaining what the Object Action drop box will allow me to do, but I'm hoping to find a way to let the user go to the next step within a slide without jumping to the next slide. If you were to copy and paste, say, an Excel chart into PPT, Object Action would probably allow you to activate or open the chart in Excel. That's one example of how it works. It won't do what you're after though. I know the user can click on the slide to advance, but I'm giving the user a Random button on the bottom of each slide and would like to give them a way to keep their mouse-cursor in the same small area (that is, a close-by button) to click to the next step on the slide. Thank you in advance. "David M. Marcovitz" wrote: Object action does not apply to what you want to do. That is why it is greyed out. Unfortunately, the thing you want is an animation trigger, but that only works on mouse click, not on mouse over. Mouse over allows you to hyperlink or run a macro (macro is greyed out, probably because you don't have any macros). If a macro is acceptable, you could put two objects on your master slide: one is a box that is 99% transparent, and the other is image you want to have show up. Then, you would have to write a macro that shows the object, and tie that the 99% transparent shape on mouse over. The other issue is that you would need to figure out how and when the image would be hidden. If macros won't work for you, you would need to kluge together a solution with hyperlinks. This will be harder if you want the image to be present on every slide. If you just want it for one slide, you can have two slides, one with the image and the other with the 99% transparent box. The 99% transparent box can be set to hyperlink to the other slide (with the image) on mouse over. --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/ =?Utf-8?B?S0FfYnJpYW4=?= wrote in : I am trying to give a picture and Action. I open the Action Settings Dialogue and I can add a hyperlink OK but I can't run a makro or an "object action" as they are greyed out. Does anybody know why? I am trying to put an image on the Master slide which appears only when I mouse over it - perhaps there is another way to do this? I am using Powerpoint 2003. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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"object action" unavailable
KA-Brian:
You need to add a trigger for this. Here is an article from Microsoft http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/po...CL100626991033 good luck!!! On Jun 1, 8:38 am, KA_brian wrote: I am trying to give a picture and Action. I open the Action Settings Dialogue and I can add a hyperlink OK but I can't run a makro or an "object action" as they are greyed out. Does anybody know why? I am trying to put an image on the Master slide which appears only when I mouse over it - perhaps there is another way to do this? I am using Powerpoint 2003. |
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"object action" unavailable
You could also add a highlight effect (much simpler)
On Jun 1, 8:38 am, KA_brian wrote: I am trying to give a picture and Action. I open the Action Settings Dialogue and I can add a hyperlink OK but I can't run a makro or an "object action" as they are greyed out. Does anybody know why? I am trying to put an image on the Master slide which appears only when I mouse over it - perhaps there is another way to do this? I am using Powerpoint 2003. |
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