Change PowerPoint text when clicked

Question

I have several text fields.

They say:

Fruit 1 Fruit 2 Fruit 3 

When I click each, the text should accordingly change to:

 Apple Banana Dragonfruit 

When one of them clicks, I want it to change to the corresponding text, and the rest remain the same.

Is there a way to do this, not just hyperlinking a bunch of slides? (it will be 8 slides, by the way). I suppose an alternative method would have to use VBA encoding, but I would prefer something without it.

Answer 1

Trigger animations should do this. Here is how.

Duplicate the text field Fruit 1, change the text to Apple. Move the Apple text box exactly to Fruit 1 and make sure it is at least slightly wider than Fruit 1.
Let Apple shape the background background fill. Now add the animation to Apple, then to the animation panel, sync effects, set it so that it appears on the trigger when you click Fruit 1.

A test to make sure that this works correctly. Finally, select both forms of text and press Ctrl + D to duplicate them as many times as necessary. Change cheat text to Fruit 2 / Banana etc. They will save the animation, so you do not need to go through all these steps for each of them.

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