Expanding Menus

[Paddy]

Hi Guys

Brilliant Forum. I hope you can help me.

I bet this is dead easy but I have been sitting here for hours trying
to work out exactly how to do this.

What I am trying to do is to setup a presentation which expands menu
within the show. ie Sub Menus

For Example

Menu Item 1 Menu Item 1a
Menu Item 1b
Menu Item 1c

When I click on Menu Item 1, then a box appears at the side of this
with links to Menu Item 1a, b and c and so on. If I were to click on
Menu Item 2, then the Menu Item 1 sub menu would disappear. It would
be brilliant is I could also dim the other items on the main menu when
the sub menu is displayed.

I think that is it. It is really bugging me and I have now run out of
all options, although I didn't have that many in the first place.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Many Thanks

Paul

 

[Ute Simon]

Hi Paddy,

which version of PowerPoint do you use? Do you want to show the sub-menus
chronologically or do you want to be able to click on any of the menu items
in any order?

In PPT 2002/xp it would be possible to realise it with
"disappear"-animations: Set your animations so, that on mouseclick one
sub-menu appears and the previous one disappears. If you want to be free to
choose the order during your presentation, you'll have to use trigger
animations. You'll get a long list of animations in that case, but it should
be possible.

Regards,
Ute

 

[Paddy]

Hi Ute

Thanks for the reply.

I am using Powerpoint 2000. Sorry should have put this into the
message. :-(

I would like to click on any of the menus and for the sub menu to
appear. I don't think the disappear animations option is available in
Powerpoint 2K.

Have you any other ideas ?

Many Thanks in advance

Paul

 

[Ute Simon]

Hi Ute

Thanks for the reply.

I am using Powerpoint 2000. Sorry should have put this into the
message. :-(

I would like to click on any of the menus and for the sub menu to
appear. I don't think the disappear animations option is available in
Powerpoint 2K.

Have you any other ideas ?

Many Thanks in advance

Paul

Hi Paul,

I think it will be best then to follow Michael's solution and build separate
slides for each sub-menu and link them forwards and backwards with
hyperlinks.

Don't use the text placeholder for your menu, but use separate text boxes as
hyperlinks. (So you avoid underlined hyperlink-text.)

Regards,
Ute