PowerPoint Tips & Tutorials

Triggers are a way to cause an animation by clicking an object. Clicking the object triggers the animation. For example, you can click a bar in a chart to trigger the display of a more detailed explanation, as shown here.

When I clicked the 2nd Qtr bar, the text box opened. If I click another bar, the first text box disappears and a new one opens. Each text box's color matches the color of the chart bar.

Sometimes I find a great tutorial and decide to simply refer you to that tutorial.You can find a tutorial for this type of triggered chart at the Glen Millar Communications Web site. Glen Millar is a PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and he presented this technique at PowerPointLive, a PowerPoint convention. I thought that I would share this tutorial with you (with his permission, of course).

To get the tutorial, click here. At the end of the tutorial, you can download the PowerPoint presentation that I show above.

Once you get used to the power of triggers, you'll find other uses for them. My quiz game uses triggers, for example.

back to main tips menu for more tips