Hi Guys,

The brief I've been given is to to produce a Christmas tree advent calendar. When you click on the decorations labelled 1 to 25 up pops a window describing some events going on in the office that day.

I'm hoping I can produce something like this in powerpoint but am struggling so far.

Has anyone got any ideas on how best to deliver this?

Thanks in advance,



Josh

The only real solution I've come up with is just to hyperlink to different slides for each day, but it looks quite unimpressive.

Also this has the problem that if I hide the other slides then save it as a pdf (preferred format), the hyperlinks no longer work.

Yep that is the way I would have suggested to do it. Create a main slide with the calendar then link to each slide with the event for the day. Include some animations or effects on each day slide to jazz it up a bit. I've used this technique with students and it's really only limited to your imagination.
Include a "home" button each of the individual day slides so it allows you to navigate back to the main advent calendar slide.
You can use the Slide Master to set up some master elements such as how the heading is formatted, the date to display and include the Home button and then just add the content for each day as required.
Not sure which slides you are hiding or why but I've got a sample file I've created in this exact method to create a boardgame and when I save as PDF the hyperlinks still work.

Hi, thanks for your message.

I agree that using animations and effects, it can be made to look reasonably good. I have also done the Home button thing, so am now happy with that base effort.

Regarding hiding slides: I want to hide each individual day slide, such that a person cannot scroll through all 25 days without clicking the links on the front christmas tree slide. So I hide all the slides except the first one. The hyperlinks still work in powerpoint, but when I convert to pdf the hyperlinks on the front slide do not work. If you know of a way round this that would be a great help.

Cheers