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turnern2
04-11-2006, 04:18 AM
I'm trying to create a high-level Project Report to show the current status of various strands of the project.

What I would like to have is a number of "traffic lights" on a single slide against the headline topics / project stages with the ability to click on any of the traffic lights and select red, amber or green to show the status of that particular element.

Is this a step too far for PowerPoint? Should have said - using PP2003

:help

Killian
04-11-2006, 05:15 AM
Hi and welcome to VBAX :hi:

It doesn't sound like a step too far to me, if I understand correctly...
You could to use a shape's "Action Settings" to run a macro. (right click a shape then select "Action Settings") The macro could then set the colour of the shape. Although undocumented, the shape clicked can be passed as an argument to the macro.
Using action settings only works when you're in slideshow view - I don't think you'll be able to get a click event going in normal slide view.

There's an example attached. Is that what you mean?

turnern2
04-11-2006, 05:21 AM
Thanks for your help - close enough to what I wanted, so I will go with this.

I will close this thread and come back with any further questions as I stumble across them!

Don't seem to be able to close the thread - any clues?

geekgirlau
04-11-2006, 06:15 PM
There's a problem with marking a thread as "solved" at the moment, so I've done this for you.

dontcare
04-28-2021, 08:24 AM
I made an account, just to see the allegedly attached file... Thx for nothing :*

Paul_Hossler
04-28-2021, 09:43 AM
Sorry you're disappointed in not finding a file from a 15 year old thread.


If you explain what you want to do and politely ask for an example, you might have better luck