Edit freeform hotspot shape

Aug 22, 2012

I've drawn a freeform hotspot and want to adjust the shape. Is that possible? I can't figure it out.

17 Replies
Brian Allen

R Rothrock said:

I checked out the Hotspot (quiz) tutorial at that link. It shows how to move and resize the hotspot areas, but doesn't show anyway to actually edit the contour of the shape.

I'm guessing the only way is to delete and redraw?


Agreed - when I create just a free form hotspot on a regular slide, I can change the size of the hotspot but not the actual shape, meaning I can't change a rectangle to an oval or vice versa.  Looks like the only way to do that is to delete and create a new one.

If you add the new one before deleting the old you can copy and paste any triggers (if any) from the old to the new before you delete the old one.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Thanks Indrani for the update - as I was going to ask for you to clarify what you meant about changing it to a hotspot! Hotspots are invisible to the user, but are areas of the slide that can be clicked on to trigger an action - so having a text hotspot would be a bit counterintuitive as I understand it. Perhaps you could share a bit more about what you ended up doing so that folks here can use that idea in the future?

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