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If you want to check up certain information on the internet, Wikipedia is probably a good place to start with. For example, if you take a look at Office 2007, Wikipedia does have a good amount of details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007
Here's a short summary extracted from Wikipedia:
"The 2007 Microsoft Office System, also known as Microsoft Office 2007, is Microsoft's next release of its productivity suite, slated to replace Microsoft Office 2003. Microsoft Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, is scheduled to be released in November 2006 for volume licensing customers and in the beginning of 2007 in retail. Microsoft plans to include several new features and improvements in Office 2007, including a new graphical user interface, the Ribbon, replacing the former menus, toolbars and many task panes."
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As with the last two topics, we have covered Trigger in a trigger and Deactivating a trigger. These two methods allow you to disable a trigger and have it works on specific conditions. So what if the user clicks on the deactivated trigger? If the user does so, he will be proceeding to the next slide. This is not what we want. Instead, if the user clicks on the deactivated trigger, he should expect nothing to happen. Here's 2 ways that you can do to prevent the slide from advancing:
1) Using the invisible autoshape that is covering the trigger, have it hyperlinked to current slide. By doing so, the user will stay on the current slide everytime he clicks on the invisible autoshape. How can this be done?
First, select the invisible autoshape. Right click on it, select Action Settings.
Under Mouse Click tab, select Hyperlink to.
Click on the dropdown field and select "Slide...".
Choose the current slide and click ok.
2) The second way is to disable mouse click to prevent user from advancing to the next slide. To do this, click on Slide Show > Slide Transition. Uncheck "On mouse click" under Advance slide. With this method, the user can still advance to the next slide by pressing the Enter key.
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Previously, we talk about Trigger in a trigger, where an animation trigger will be activated on the random completion of three other trigger animations. Today, I will be showing you another example on how you can manipulate with triggers.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to deactivate a trigger. If you have seen the previous tutorial, this should sound easy. Same thing, we are going to make use of the "Invisible AutoShape". So here's the scenario: For instance, I have two buttons, Button A and B. Clicking on either A or B will activate some animations. In addition, IF Button A is clicked, B will be disabled and vice versa.
Assuming that you know how to create Animation Trigger, we will just talk about disabling the trigger.
First, you will need to create two rectangle AutoShapes. Each autoshape will cover one button entirely.
Now, select these two autoshapes, right click and select Format AutoShapes.
Set them to No Line. Under Fill, set to 99% transparency. This will make
them 'invisible'.
Click Slide Show > Custom Animation.
Add Appear effect (Entrance) to the autoshapes.
Here's the complicared part,
Double click on the appear effect that has been added on the invisible autoshape covering Button A.
Select the Timing Tab.
Click on the Triggers button.
Select "Start effect on click of".
Click on the dropdown field and look for Button B.
Click Ok to apply the change.
Double click on the appear effect that has been added on the invisible autoshape covering Button B.
Select the Timing Tab.
Click on the Triggers button.
Select "Start effect on click of".
Click on the dropdown field and look for Button A.
Click Ok to apply the change.
Now, if you click on Button A, you will see some animations, and at the same time, Button B will be deactivated by the invisible autoshape.