PowerPoint Triggers
A Definitive Guide

Part 4 - Hyperlink and then change the button

Did you read "Basic Triggers in PowerPoint" and "Complex Triggers"? and More Complex Triggers

This tutorial creates a button that hyperlinks to a page and then changes colour to indicate that it has been used and deactivates the link to prevent re-use. This is often used in games like jeopardy.

Here's a portion of a jeopardy type game. The blue shapes are action buttons that link to question pages and then return to this page.

Copy and paste the shapes and on the copy change the fill.

Now select all the grey buttons and CUT and "Edit>paste special" as a png file. Place the png to align exactly with the blue buttons and "Send backwards" until the png is behind all the blue buttons.

Now we create animations to remove each blue button as it is used. Select the blue button and give it an exit animation of disappear. Double click the entry and in timing click triggers and set the animation to take place on click of itself.

Now when you click a button it will hyperlink and on return disappear to show the png file which of course is inactive!

If you do not need to make the button "inactive" after use an alternative is to forget the png file and just make the animations Emphasis > change fill color