Re: Unpredictable Action Buttons

Yes. I've seen this. In fact, there's a Jeopardy example on my site that
acts this very same way. I was thinking it's the gradient fills in the
rectangles. Do your tables have fills?

Tim Hards, one of the Perspector gurus (http://www.perspector.com) emailed
me many months ago -- he's thinking it's a problem with the exit animations
themselves. As he explained it, "The problem seems to be that following the
"Box" animation, the area covered by the box at the last moment before the
shape disappears becomes an invisible hole. Clicking on this hole results in
the user dropping through to the next slide, no matter what is in that
area."

I admit to being a slug and not confirming this, but it may give you some
ideas of things to look at as causes.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

"freeman" <freeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've created a U.S. map with 51 freeforms (one for each state + DC), each
of
> which activates a corresponding, simple 2 X 2 table (also 51) that enters
> offscreen from the left, displays then exists right after it is clicked.
All
> of them enter without problem. However, each table either exits or brings
in
> another table, depending on what part of the table I click. As long as I
> click the very left edge of the table, it exits the way it's supposed to.
If
> I click inside the table, it either advances to the next slide or brings
in a
> table linked to another state. I've made sure that the stacking order has
> placed all action buttons underneath the tables. The tables themselves are
> stacked in alphabetical order (one on top of another) on the pasteboard to
> the left of the slide. Each travels on a straight motion path. I'm using
> PowerPoint 2003 for Windows. Anyone seen this before?


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