A whole eries of slides all on one slide! How?

[Audioeditor]

A client recently sent me a fantastic powerpoint with the best animation I've
ever seen. When I look at the slide sorter there is only one slide there and
all the text and graphics seem to just be on top of each other. It looks like
gobledygook and yet when you hit "slide show" it plays out perfectly.
I really want to know this technique but I don't see it in any of the books
or manuals about powerpoint. I can see what looks like dozens of animation
commands with their time lines, but how could you possibly put this together
just looking at one slide. I can't even imagine, but I'd love to know how to
do it.
Thanks,
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Austin Myers]

Can you do it, sure. Is it a good idea? Not really. Slides are cheap
(free) and there is no reason to try and do everything on one slide. Doing
so is very time consuming, (as you pointed out) is a nightmare to edit or
change, and increases the risks of animations being skipped because the PC
(you don't know what type of PC will be used to view it) has too much
happening at the same time.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Audioeditor]

Austin, What I don't understand is how he did all that on one slide? I mean
there are incredible moves on tons of text. He must have had some 3rd party
something to even be able to do it. You're right, it certainly safeguarded
his work because I wouldn't have the first idea about how to change anything.
That's wat I was hoping to get an answer to here.
Thanks,
Steve

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Steve

If I was approaching this project this is what I would do (well actually I
would use multiple slides but let's put that aside for now).
1. Make sure I knew exactly what text I wanted & in what order
2. Create all text boxes & drag off screen
3. In the order I wanted them to build, I would move textboxes on to slide
or to their start or end position and add animation(s) - remember you can
have more than one animation happening at once to an object
4. Repeat until I had completed animations on all text boxes
5. In order to edit any text I would use the select multiple object dialogue
box. To edit animations I would select them in the animation taskpane.

Of course, this is all easier in 2007 with the new selection taskpane and
the ability to temporarily hide objects.

If you have access to the original file then you could easily pick apart the
animations used on each element.

Lucy

 

[Echo S]

Of course, this is all easier in 2007 with the new selection taskpane and

the ability to temporarily hide objects.

I bet this -- 2007 and the selection and visibility taskpane, or another
"hide objects" type of add-in -- is the key.

I heard someone at PPTLive (was it Julie Terberg?) say she did an extremely
complex series of animations all on one slide because the ultimate user was
not at all computer savvy and could just about be relied on to get one slide
into her presentation, but not any more, and not in the right order, etc.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

I heard someone at PPTLive (was it Julie Terberg?) say she did an
extremely complex series of animations all on one slide because the
ultimate user was not at all computer savvy and could just about be relied
on to get one slide into her presentation, but not any more, and not in
the right order, etc.

Ahh clients, don't you just love 'em ;-)

Lucy

 

[TAJ Simmons]

If I was trying to do this (all on one slide thing)... I'd assemble each bit
on seperate slides, and then when each bit was perfect... only then would I
copy and paste them onto a single slide.

This example makes use of just one slide...... but during creation I used
several slides.... otherwise I might have gone totally mad trying to edit
each bit on one slide.

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http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/mad-contraption-ppt-demo.htm

Cheers

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Microsoft Powerpoint MVP

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