Change Link Color in Keynote after a click

Here is the problem.

I am making a game show presentation for a school function. On one slide you can click on one of four links representing 1 of four games. When you click on the link for the appropriate game it takes you to several slides which have the quetions for that game. At the end of the questions, there is a link back to the main slide which again allows you to choose 1 of the 4 games. I want it set up so that after I click on one link and then come back to the home page the link will be a different color (like when you click on a hyperlink in a web page). This way the user knows which games have been played when they come back to the main page and will not click on a game they've already done. I know this is possible in powerpoint (although I can't figure out how there either) . Can I do it in keynote?

PowerMac G5 dual 2.0, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Mar 9, 2008 7:27 AM

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Mar 9, 2008 10:32 AM in response to Jonathan Barresi1

You can't do it in Keynote because Keynote works more like a video application than a web application. With the web and PowerPoint, you can assign a color or image to represent a visited link. But, since that's more of a "hypertext" feature (for training and other non-presentation uses), Keynote doesn't work that way.

However, depending on what you're trying to represent, instead of linking back to the FIRST page, you can link do an alternate page that looks like what the slide would look like after choosing one of the items. For example, on slide 1, you can have your 4 "menu" links, then your content for the next 9 slides. When you want to go back to slide 1 to show what it would look like AFTER clicking option 1, then go to slide 10 after having clicked on the first choice, slide 20 after having clicked on the second choice, and so on. The file will grow in complexity as you have to essentially build each permutation of every possible choice, but with 4 main choices, it's relatively manageable. Each additional choice adds a LOT more variances, though, so if each of the sub games depend on this function, you won't want do do it with Keynote.

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Change Link Color in Keynote after a click

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