Complex animation: Org Chart cumbles like a house of cards

[perkolate]

Hi, looking for advice for some advanced animation in PowerPoint. I have a
large org chart of over 100 boxes that upon loading on the page, I want to
have each box fall to the bottom of the page like collasping house of cards
in a pile. Is that possible in Powerpoint? If not, does anyone know of a
3rd party solution where I can still keep the animation in PPT? Oh, yeah,
I'm using PPT 2002

 

[Bill Dilworth]

If you want to do this easily, here are the steps.

1) Copy the entire slide and make a new one
make the slide look like the end of the first one (remove entrance
animations and such)
Set this slide to transition with appear

2) Select the Org Chart
Cut it (Ctl + X)

3) Paste special as a EMF (Edit => Paste Special... => Picture (EMF))

4) Ungroup (Right click => Ungroup)
Repeat until ungroup is no longer available

5) With everything still selected, right click and choose Custom animation
Add an exit animation of bounce

6) Adjust the animation
Set the first animation to after previous
Set the rest of them to with previous
Right click on one of the animations and select Show advanced timing
Drag the timing bars to various durations and start and end times
Play with the timings to suit


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