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"Click here" box
I am sure this is really easy and I just can't see the
forest for the trees. On my title slide I want a "Click here" box that automatically deletes that text and then let's you start typing your text there. THe basic thing I am after is for an instructor to see a box that says "Your name here" and when he clicks in that text box, that text is deleted and he's sitting there with the "I" bar already justified in the center of it and ready for him/her to type their name in for the presentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! I have searched and have not hit the right combination of words to turn this answer up. I thought a placeholder was what I was looking for, but I can't create those according to what I found. TIA Paul Marcuzzo |
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"Click here" box
This is a feature of using Master Slides. Most likely you have not added a
Title Master Slide to your Content Master Slide. Go to VIEW MASTER SLIDE then INSERT NEW TITLE MASTER. Format the title slide with background, position of two permitted text boxes and their font style - size - color - etc. Insert a new slide and change SLIDE DESIGN to Title Slide. -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. 760-639-1853 office www.tlccreative.com 760-806-1853 fax 760-521-7401 cell =========================================== Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =========================================== "paul marcuzzo" wrote in message ... I am sure this is really easy and I just can't see the forest for the trees. On my title slide I want a "Click here" box that automatically deletes that text and then let's you start typing your text there. THe basic thing I am after is for an instructor to see a box that says "Your name here" and when he clicks in that text box, that text is deleted and he's sitting there with the "I" bar already justified in the center of it and ready for him/her to type their name in for the presentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! I have searched and have not hit the right combination of words to turn this answer up. I thought a placeholder was what I was looking for, but I can't create those according to what I found. TIA Paul Marcuzzo |
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"Click here" box
Thanks Troy, but that doesn't allow me to change the text
of the placeholder box to "Your name here". I have seen this done before and can't figure it out. -----Original Message----- This is a feature of using Master Slides. Most likely you have not added a Title Master Slide to your Content Master Slide. Go to VIEW MASTER SLIDE then INSERT NEW TITLE MASTER. Format the title slide with background, position of two permitted text boxes and their font style - size - color - etc. Insert a new slide and change SLIDE DESIGN to Title Slide. -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. 760-639-1853 office www.tlccreative.com 760-806-1853 fax 760-521-7401 cell =========================================== Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =========================================== "paul marcuzzo" wrote in message ... I am sure this is really easy and I just can't see the forest for the trees. On my title slide I want a "Click here" box that automatically deletes that text and then let's you start typing your text there. THe basic thing I am after is for an instructor to see a box that says "Your name here" and when he clicks in that text box, that text is deleted and he's sitting there with the "I" bar already justified in the center of it and ready for him/her to type their name in for the presentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! I have searched and have not hit the right combination of words to turn this answer up. I thought a placeholder was what I was looking for, but I can't create those according to what I found. TIA Paul Marcuzzo . |
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"Click here" box
Welcome to the dark side, you don't know the PowerPoint of the darkside.
VBA, do what you seek, for you , it will. (Sorry, I don't do Yoda well. I'll stick with Bill instead.) You will need to insert a textbox using the following technique: View | Toolbars | Controls Toolbox find the Textbox control, click on it, and draw the box on your slide. Now you will want to add some code modify the textboxes appearance and behavior: From the editing window of PowerPoint, double click inside the textbox. This action will bring up your VBE (Visual Basic Editor) window and begin a sub routine for you. The first line of the code should read 'Private Sub TextBox1_Change()' Near the top, on the right, you will see a pulldown box that is labeled Change. Pull this down and find GotFocus, click on it. A new sub routine will appear labeled 'Private Sub TextBox1_GotFocus()'. Add the line TextBox1.Text = "" inside this routine. If you want, you can delete the first routine. As of right now, your textbox will clear whenever someone clicks on it. But you also want the text "Type your name here" to be centered within this textbox, so... still in the VBE click on View | and select the Property window. In this window, use the pulldown to select Textbox1. In the box next to 'Text', add Type your name here. The look for the box below that 'Text Align' and change that to '2 - fmTextAlignCenter'. This should do what you have asked. -- Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP =============== Please spend a few minutes checking vestprog2@ out www.pptfaq.com This link will yahoo. answer most of our questions, before com you think to ask them. Change org to com to defuse anti-spam, ant-virus, anti-nuisance misdirection. .. .. "paul marcuzzo" wrote in message ... I am sure this is really easy and I just can't see the forest for the trees. On my title slide I want a "Click here" box that automatically deletes that text and then let's you start typing your text there. THe basic thing I am after is for an instructor to see a box that says "Your name here" and when he clicks in that text box, that text is deleted and he's sitting there with the "I" bar already justified in the center of it and ready for him/her to type their name in for the presentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! I have searched and have not hit the right combination of words to turn this answer up. I thought a placeholder was what I was looking for, but I can't create those according to what I found. TIA Paul Marcuzzo |
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"Click here" box
Sorry for misunderstanding. Unless you possibly go with a custom VBA
solution this is not an option in PPT, as no version of PPT supports adding editable elements to slide master (although there is hope for the next version!). -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, inc. troy at tlccreative dot com ================================================ Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com ================================================ wrote in message ... Thanks Troy, but that doesn't allow me to change the text of the placeholder box to "Your name here". I have seen this done before and can't figure it out. -----Original Message----- This is a feature of using Master Slides. Most likely you have not added a Title Master Slide to your Content Master Slide. Go to VIEW MASTER SLIDE then INSERT NEW TITLE MASTER. Format the title slide with background, position of two permitted text boxes and their font style - size - color - etc. Insert a new slide and change SLIDE DESIGN to Title Slide. -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. 760-639-1853 office www.tlccreative.com 760-806-1853 fax 760-521-7401 cell =========================================== Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =========================================== "paul marcuzzo" wrote in message ... I am sure this is really easy and I just can't see the forest for the trees. On my title slide I want a "Click here" box that automatically deletes that text and then let's you start typing your text there. THe basic thing I am after is for an instructor to see a box that says "Your name here" and when he clicks in that text box, that text is deleted and he's sitting there with the "I" bar already justified in the center of it and ready for him/her to type their name in for the presentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! I have searched and have not hit the right combination of words to turn this answer up. I thought a placeholder was what I was looking for, but I can't create those according to what I found. TIA Paul Marcuzzo . |
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"Click here" box
Been there, Troy. Many times. No worries.
When we strive to help others, we're allowed a little slack, I think. Bill D. "Troy @ TLC" wrote in message news:V%Puc.40457$zN5.2943@fed1read01... Sorry for misunderstanding. Unless you possibly go with a custom VBA solution this is not an option in PPT, as no version of PPT supports adding editable elements to slide master (although there is hope for the next version!). -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, inc. troy at tlccreative dot com ================================================ Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com ================================================ wrote in message ... Thanks Troy, but that doesn't allow me to change the text of the placeholder box to "Your name here". I have seen this done before and can't figure it out. -----Original Message----- This is a feature of using Master Slides. Most likely you have not added a Title Master Slide to your Content Master Slide. Go to VIEW MASTER SLIDE then INSERT NEW TITLE MASTER. Format the title slide with background, position of two permitted text boxes and their font style - size - color - etc. Insert a new slide and change SLIDE DESIGN to Title Slide. -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. 760-639-1853 office www.tlccreative.com 760-806-1853 fax 760-521-7401 cell =========================================== Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =========================================== "paul marcuzzo" wrote in message ... I am sure this is really easy and I just can't see the forest for the trees. On my title slide I want a "Click here" box that automatically deletes that text and then let's you start typing your text there. THe basic thing I am after is for an instructor to see a box that says "Your name here" and when he clicks in that text box, that text is deleted and he's sitting there with the "I" bar already justified in the center of it and ready for him/her to type their name in for the presentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! I have searched and have not hit the right combination of words to turn this answer up. I thought a placeholder was what I was looking for, but I can't create those according to what I found. TIA Paul Marcuzzo . |
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