Control Toolbox Option Button

K

kaltman

I want to have one slide with several questions, and I want to use the option
button to select the correct answers. However, once I select an option
button answer for question #1, when I select an option button for question
#2's answer, I loose the marking in option #1, and so forth and so on. I
noticed that even if the questions are on different slides. It seems you can
only select on option. My question, once you select an option button
response, how can that be saved? How do companies collect info from
similiar option buttons when they send out a survey?
Thank you in advance. The discussion forum has been a huge help.
 
R

rajkohli

I do not know about the Control Box very much but as you mention, I have
tried it on my computer and it was working fine. I am using PowerPoint 2003.

You must check the properties of "Option Buttons". Try inserting a new slide
in good manners. One more thing: Let the "Properties" window remain open. It
will show you the "Properties" dialog box title as "Slide 1 Slide" and "Slide
2 Slide". It indicates that different properties are being set.

Hope for best and trying seeing the properties box careful. Let us know, if
it works.
 
B

Bill Foley

This is usually done with VBA code. Based on radio buttons or textbox text,
these items can be passed to variable that can be ported differently (via
Outlook as an e-mail, to an Access database, etc.). What exactly is it you
are trying to do?

--
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Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
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K

kaltman

Bill,
I make power point shows for our employee training program. The last page
is a test page. I usually use a "check box" for employees to choose the
correct answers to questions. Once they complete the test, they print it out
and submit it to their supervisor. I thought I would try using the "option
button" instead for a change of pace. But by using the "option button", once
they select the correct answer for one question and go on to the next and
click on the "option button" for that correct answer, the previously selected
"option button" becomes de-selected.
Simply put, if on one slide, you have 4 separate questions, with a choice of
answers for each question, using the "option button" instead of a "check
box", how can you get the "option buttons" to work separately as a group for
each individual question. (I don't see anything in the properties box that
allows you to do this). Again, thanks for your help.
 
K

kaltman

rajkohli,
The Properties box doesn't help, but your suggestion to inserting a slide
"in good manner" definately helped. My problem was that I was copying and
pasting the slides and just editing the verbage. Thanks much!!
 
K

kaltman

Thank you Bill and rejkohli.

Rejkohli, you had me looking more closely at the properties. Their is
something called "Group Name". So on one slide, I can have several "groups"
of option buttons, working independently of one another. THANKS THANKS
 
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