Re: PPT VBA - Clicking on non-existent textbox?

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From: David M. Marcovitz (marcoNOSPAM_at_loyola.edu)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 07:27:55 -0800

Through all the puns, I've lost track of this. Is the problem solved? If
not, did you try Steve's GotoSlide solution (jumping to the same slide
you are on)? Two more questions:

(1) Are you using a Mac or Windows?
(2) Do you have any animated GIFs on the slide?
(3) There is no question 3.

--David 

-- 
David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
"Zigzag" <zigzag@NoSpamhotmail.com> wrote in
news:OXE3N2tIFHA.2420@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl: 
> Hi David,
> 
>>I have never seen the behavior you described.
> 
> Phew, I was starting to doubt myself for a minute there so I've
> backtracked to how it all started, (I've done a lot of attempted
> fixes), and I've recreated the original problem.
> You are right, you can click on boxes which are layered but I noticed
> that whereas you can click anywhere on the topmost box including text,
> any other box lower down the zorder will only allow you to click on
> the textbox edge and not the text itself.
> Now, it would be fair of you to say that during a presentation an
> audience wouldn't notice if you were clicking on the text or just off
> it and you would be right. However, this presentation is designed to
> be run by a single user on their screen and not by me. I noticed it
> straight off and thought I'd forgotten to assign an event to the box.
> That is until I moved the mouse away from the text. Call me Mr.
> Pernickety but I thought it looked unprofessional so was resolved to
> correcting the offending detail. The attempted fixes seemed to Snobol
> (thank you Mr. Steve ;-) ) out off control. 
> 
> I appreciate the help yourself and others have offered, (puns
> excluded), and there is plenty to be going on with.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Mr. P
> 
>

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