# PowerPoint question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/powerpoint-question/543968>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 21, 2010, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/powerpoint-question/543968 "2010-06-21T09:37:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/powerpoint-question/543968/1 "2010-06-21T09:37:30Z")

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For context, I’m using PowerPoint 2007. I don’t have any programming skills or anything swish like that.

Is it possible to create a ‘mouseover’ event so that when a user hovers over an object on the slide, it will pop up another object, such as a text box?

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/powerpoint-question/543968/2 "2010-06-21T22:01:02Z")

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Two ways. One is to set a “Trigger” animation, which will fire when you mouse over another object. (There will be two tabs: “mouse click” and “mouse over” - choose mouse over)

The other is to set an “action on click” action setting for the mouse over event, but it sounds like a Trigger is what you want, since you have more freedom on what that trigger can do than you would with an action on click.