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June 28, 2013
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Rollover slidelets viewable more than once?

  • June 28, 2013
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This is more a design focused question.

I'd like to create a review of a screen with a number of different buttons.  When the user moves the mouse of a particular area of the screen, a rollover slide should pop up with information about that particular part of the screen.  I'd like to set it up so the user can stay on that screen as long as they want and view each rollover slidelet as many times as they'd like.  The way it is right now, however, the rollover slidelet will show up, and then they're not able to see it again. Ideally they could mouse over it once, explore some other areas of the screen, and then return to it.  Is that feasible?  If so, how would I go about doing it?

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    RodWard
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    June 29, 2013

    The far easier way to do this is NOT to use slidelets but to use rollover captions or rollover image objects.  Slidelets are a pain in the proverbial it too many ways.

    Just put a click box or button on the slide to pause it while allowing the user to move their mouse over the rollover hotspots on the slide to see information pop up as needed.  When the user is satisfied with the information they can just click to move forward again.

    Much simpler to setup and maintain.

    Participant
    June 29, 2013

    Thanks for the advice! So no way to have both an image and a text caption

    and do what I would like?

    RodWard
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    June 30, 2013

    Create the image and the caption in PowerPoint. Group them.  Save as image.  Use image in Rollover Image object.

    Use slidelets if you want, but I've learned to stay away from them.