Fill a listbox with slide titles, make it go to chosen slide when clicked

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Problem

You want to create an "index" of slide titles and provide a way to go to any slide by clicking its title in a list box.

For example, you have a presentation that includes song lyrics. Each song's lyrics are on a slide and the song's title is the slide's title. You want to be able to click a song title and go to that slide automatically.

Solution

This requires a bit of setup so rather than try to describe it here, we've provided a working example that you can duplicate or simply reformat and add your own content to.

Right click and choose Save target to download ListBoxExample.ppt (approx 35kb)

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