Mouse Click Powerpoint

[Tom Donahou]

Youcan adjust the setting after recording to achieve your goal.

Please take a look at the above response for more information: How to remove mouse-click sounds from recordings of PowerPoint presentations? - #2 by phuongdv

In addition, you can customize the cursor effects before recording, then save it as a custom theme to reuse across projects.

Please refer to this written tutorial with a video tutorial for more details:

So in my efforts to remove Captivate from presentations, I want to simulate a mouse movement in powerpoint. Now I've seen an example from Tom where he used hotboxes and the user clicked to transition, but I want to have a series of slides where the user doesn't have to do anything and sees a mouse cursor moving and clicking on buttons. I figure I need a combination of mouse graphics and probably a custom animation that follows a path. Was wondering if anyone has done anything similar, or has some pointers (no pun intended).

custom motion paths and mouse graphics, you could even simulate mouse over with appear and disappear. Use the motionpath tool (sorry don't have a link was in one of toms turorials) just to make things easier. This is acheivable with powerpoint

now I'm wondering the most effective way to do a text entry box. Found this, seems promising with a little modification. Lots of times just going from one slide with no text to another slide with the text fools the eye.

Thanks Damien, I was hoping that Zoom would be the culprit but unfortunately it is not. I've tried Repairing Office 2010, rechecked my mouse device settings to no avail. It is a more global problem as I cannot select the intended paragraph of text on a webpage using Chrome. I'm re-checking for viruses.

This is also happening to me in both Word and Excel. It's driving me crazy. Have you found any fixes yet? I have a completely new computer and mouse and the selecting cell or word process has become frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've noticed this problem in Excel and Microsoft Edge. In Edge it appeared to be related to the zoom level; if I reset my zoom level I could use the scroll bar otherwise the 'hit box' for the scroll bar and the visual position of the scroll bar were different

In excel I get the issue of selecting a cell and it selects a different cell - this is seems to be where the scroll position of the content on the screen becomes disconnected from the scroll position of the scroll bar. This happens reliably if I have 'freeze panes' activated (e.g. I have the top row of a table frozen). With freeze panes activated scrolling with the scroll gesture on my mouse pad (two finger swipe) disconnects the content scroll position from the scroll bar position - I can see this happening; when I scroll with the mouse pad the page scrolls but the scroll bar doesn't move.

I have been having the same trouble since I got a Surface Pro tablet with docking station. Logitech 310 mouse will not swipe very well in just about anything, but most annoying in Excel. But for me the problem was not anything with the computer or the Office apps - it was the Logitech Mouse! I swapped out for a BlackWeb wireless mouse (either USB wireless or Bluetooth) and the problem is gone! Hallelujah!

@Colette Killian It's your mouse! Check that.... I just had the same issue and discovered my mouse sensor was not working properly. My trackpad on my laptop worked to highlight just fine and so did a new mouse!

@Michael Marvelli For those who need a concrete response... Office 365 isn't the issue, confirmed with our IT department and others at our company. I had a Logitech M310 mouse and that was the issue. I switched to a Logitech M525 and it works like how Excel, Outlook, etc. should now. Hope this saves someone the agonizing pain of being unable to flash fill by dragging, trying to grab documents or emails while it disconnects your click, etc.

@Damien_Rosario this worked like a charm! So grateful you took the time to post this resolution. I was beginning to think I might be having the onset of Parkinson's or something that I couldn't control my mouse well enough to make these simple maneuvers to move info between Excel cells. HA HA

The quick background is that I am in the research stages of building an add-in for PowerPoint. My end goal is to develop a CAD Dimensioning Add-in to help expedite the creating of Engineering Presentations. We have to do a lot of "PowerPoint Engineering" where the general sizes of components are shown on simplified versions of said components created with PPT shapes or screenshots of the CAD geometry itself. But creating dimensions over and over is tedious. Each one generally consists of an arrow, 2 lines, and a text box with the dimension value.

I believe I can handle all of the coding with the exception step 2, which is why I am here. I am having much trouble finding a starting point. Specifically, I need help with how to listen for a LMC. In words, what envision is the following:

My searches have landed me on the MouseDown event handler pages at MSDN, but in my testing, I don't think that this is what I need. Its seem as though MouseDown is intended to start a routine when the Mouse is Down on a CommandButton in the UserForm it self.

I have also found this SO post where the only answer seemed to imply that this was not possible without going to great lengths AND the code was possible detrimental to the file itself: How to record mouse clicks in Excel VBA?. (I have no problem going to great lengths and putting in the work, but not if the resulting code has a high likelihood of doing damage as the post seems to suggest.) (Also, the OP was downvoted with no explanation, maybe someone can tell me why so I don't make the same mistake.)

All you need to do is change the cursor position to the coordinates on the screen.To do this, I made a new macro with the following code and assigned it to the "Ctrl+Y" button. This will tell you the coordinates of your current mouse location.

I have a slide with a video clip on it that automatically starts playing when the slide is loaded. This is a 3 minute clip but I want to be able to go to the next slide whenever I want (by mouse click). This works OOTB of course but the problem is that both the video and audio are abruptly cut off and I want both video and audio to fade out when I click the mouse to go to the next slide.

I got this to work by adding an animation to the video. I clicked the video, add exit fade, and it now fades out on my click. I had to make sure the background of the slide that the video is on was black.

It is important to notice that this will work only if you have the slideshow configured to run in full screen mode, but not using the normal resizable window. This PowerPoint tip can be useful for example if you want to prevent the right click of your mouse to open the contextual menu during a presentation but also to configure a PowerPoint remote control which will use the right click to go back.

Is it possible to change the mouse cursor when a user hovers over a text Label? Essentially, I want to make certain text Labels act like Buttons, if possible. I want figure out a way to turn the mouse cursor from the "arrow" pointer to the "hand" pointer when the user hovers, similar to what happens with Buttons.

To resolve, add a search icon and configure it with the launch parameter for onselect then expand the search icon over the text and in the properties and delete the icon.search text under the icon properties. Now when you hover over the text it will change to a hand.

@PhilD is correct. However, be mindful of eliminating accessiblity properties like Hover and Press. Instead, you can keep them but make them less intrusive with a HoverFill like RGBA( 0, 0, 0, 0.05) - this is still colorless, but imparts a slight fade effect to help those who benefit from accessiblity properties.

If we have a label named 'LabelGalleryItemTitle' and we want it to appear clickable, we can put an icon over it, say one named 'IconClick', then set these properties (I used a simple right arrow icon)...

@Jenifer

No, you cannot make the mouse cursor change to a hand when hovering over a label. The workaround is to place icon or button over top of the label and set the Visible property to this code.

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Some time ago, I noted that mouse cursor jumps a few pixels if you click on the very bottom row of pixels on the taskbar. I noted that this is done to make it possible to click on the very bottom row of pixels, even though they are technically a border, in order to operate on the button immediately above them. Otherwise, the button-down code sees that the mouse is outside the button and cancels the button operation (click or drag).

Why right-click and left-click when you can double-right-click? (With a few notable exceptions, you can right-click to activate items in context menus.) Of course I never use my desktop so the whole shortcut is wasted on me.

I know of a different but related effect that can be confusing. If you put the cursor at the very bottom of the screen and click anywhere within the horizontal bounds of the notification area/tray, it will send the click to the last tray item that was activated regardless of what X position the cursor is actually at. ?

With Microsoft PowerPoint you can craft a unique, effective presentation using its many features and media options. Although this plethora of features can be helpful, sometimes all the choices and capabilities make the one element you actually want difficult to find. If you want to click a button to make an object appear, like a text box, WordArt, a picture or practically anything else, you can easily add an animation to that object. During your presentation, it will appear when you click the mouse button on that slide.

Click on the object or objects you want to make appear during your presentation. You can select more than one object by holding "Control" and clicking each one. If you select multiple objects, they will all appear at the same time. If you want to add animations to multiple objects, you can work through them one by one, and they'll appear in that order. You can always change the order later.

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