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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / October 2006Object Settings - Object Action
When I go to Action Settings for an item there is a Run Macro and Object Action that show up but are greyed out. How do I select those options? PP 2003 SP1 For Object Action, I believe some types of objects have actions while others don't. For Run Macro, that will be grayed out if the presentation does not have any macros to run. --David  SignatureDavid 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/ > When I go to Action Settings for an item there is a Run Macro and Object > Action that show up but are greyed out. How do I select those options? > > PP 2003 SP1 You must insert an object "Insert", "Object", like an Excel worksheet, in order to right-click the object and set the Object Action. You must also have a macro in your presentation in order to set the Run Macro to one of them. Also, make sure your macro security is set to MEDIUM (Tools, Macro, Security), close PowerPoint, then re-open for these changes to take affect. SignatureBill Foley Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor www.pttinc.com > When I go to Action Settings for an item there is a Run Macro and Object > Action that show up but are greyed out. How do I select those options? > > PP 2003 SP1 The Run Macro action is grayed out if there are no macros that can be run. Add a macro and it should become active. Likewise, Object Actions is only available when an object can have Actions applied (like a movie or sound or spreadsheet from excel). SignatureBill Dilworth A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team Users helping fellow users. http://billdilworth.mvps.org -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages. yahoo. They answer most of our questions. com www.pptfaq.com . > When I go to Action Settings for an item there is a Run Macro and Object > Action that show up but are greyed out. How do I select those options? > > PP 2003 SP1 Thanks, that helps me understand what those are. What I actually want to happen is for a slide to only transistion on the click of an object but I wanted the current slide to do one more animation after that before transistioning. is there a way to do that without having to have them click another time? doesnt seem to be... > The Run Macro action is grayed out if there are no macros that can be run. > Add a macro and it should become active. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > > PP 2003 SP1 There are ways to make it appear like this is what is happening, would that be good enough? On the first slide remove the advance on click option (transitions pane). Apply the Hyperlink to the shape to be clicked that 'advances to next slide". Create a new slide that looks like the end of the first one, the create an animation that activates with previous and auto-advances in 00:01 seconds. The user will click on the shape and will not notice the slide change (because it is identical), will see the animation and then the new slide. Work? SignatureBill Dilworth A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team Users helping fellow users. http://billdilworth.mvps.org -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages. yahoo. They answer most of our questions. com www.pptfaq.com . > Thanks, that helps me understand what those are. > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> > >> > PP 2003 SP1 That would work. Thanks, I'll have to see how big the file becomes, it may be too much for a simple effect. Appreciate the help though, a nice simple solution.. > There are ways to make it appear like this is what is happening, would that > be good enough? [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > >> > > >> > PP 2003 SP1 |
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