Advanced timeline animations

[Alanna]

In the Cutting Edge Powerpoint for Dummies book, they recommend dragging the
advanced timeline to the bottom of the screen where it expands and makes it
easier to create timed animations. I can't seem to drag the title bar down.
I am using 2003, does this feature only work in 2007?

I'm spend WAY too much time trying to sync my complex animations to
narration. Any suggestions?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hover the mouse over the 4 small dots on the left hand side of the bar (to
the left of the bar name) in the animations tab before clicking to drag it.

Yes this works in all toolbars where those dots are present including 2003.

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[Glen Millar]

Hi,

At the top of the Animation Task Pane, where it says "Custom Animation"
there are six little dots, to the left. Click there and keep dragging with
your mouse until it pops off. Then drag towards the bottom until it snaps
in. When you drag it to the bottom, you nearly have to drag it off your
computer, or at least towards the Drawing Toolbar at the bottom. Hope that
helps. also, you can actually drag it to another monitor if you have a dual
monitor setup! Troy Chollar taught me that one!

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[Glen Millar]

Hi Bill,

So the US version has 4 dots and the Aussie version has 6!

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[Bill Dilworth]

I think it depends on the screen resolution or something.

On the four computers I have quick access to, they are showing 4 (1280x800),
4 (1280x1024), 4(1440x900), and 5(1680x1050). I suspect that there is a
section of the program code dedicating to figuring out how many dots will be
visible by an average PowerPoint user based on the screen size and
resolution. By any chance are you running some insanely high screen
resolution Glen?

Bill D.

 

[Echo S]

The others have gotten you going with dragging the animation pane.

Regarding synching your animations to narrations, well, if your narrations
are just one sound file per slide, you should know that, even if you get it
synched on your system, it may not present the same way on another system --
or even on your own system the second and third times through!

See http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/synchronizing.htm for
further explanation and suggestions.

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi Bill,

1680 by 1050. There must be either a lot of dots that appear as the
resolution increases, or one dot that is added as a loop as screen real
estate increases. Interesting bit of trivia.

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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

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[Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)]

Hi Bill & Glen

Just out of interest, I'm running at 1680x1050 and have 5 dots.

Lucy

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

OK. Can't find my glasses so I did a screen shot with Snag It, dropped it
into PowerPoint and zoomed. I have five!

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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Please tell us your PowerPoint version

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
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glen at pptworkbench dot com

 

[joel]

In the Cutting Edge Powerpoint for Dummies book, they recommend dragging the
advanced timeline to the bottom of the screen where it expands and makes it
easier to create timed animations.  I can't seem to drag the title bar down.
I am using 2003, does this feature only work in 2007?

I'm spend WAY too much time trying to sync my complex animations to
narration.  Any suggestions?

Alanna,

Suggest you try our Speech-Over or Record-Over products
(www.speechover.com) - they will synch your narrations to your complex
animations automatically. For more info, see my comments in our
discussion on your thread "Narrating in Powerpoint vs Articulate".

Regards,

Joel

Joel Harband
Tuval Software Industries
www.speechover.com