Need to enlarge images without getting blurry

[Ginger]

I have a slide that contains several small charts, which I resized
down to make them fit. I need to do some kind of animation that will
enlarge one chart at a time (preferably upon clicking). I tried the
Enlarge Animation, but it makes the enlarged charts look so blurry
that they are not legible.

Is there a way to essentially do what the Enlarge animation does
without distorting the image?

I created the charts in Excel, so I have full resolution versions of
all the charts.
Using PowerPoint and Excel 2003.

Thanks!
Ginger

 

[LVTravel]

I have a slide that contains several small charts, which I resized
down to make them fit. I need to do some kind of animation that will
enlarge one chart at a time (preferably upon clicking). I tried the
Enlarge Animation, but it makes the enlarged charts look so blurry
that they are not legible.

Is there a way to essentially do what the Enlarge animation does
without distorting the image?

I created the charts in Excel, so I have full resolution versions of
all the charts.
Using PowerPoint and Excel 2003.

Thanks!
Ginger

Use animation to go to a new slide that has the enlarged image on it and
have a transparent box to click on to go back to the last slide, or have it
hidden on the slide and when the small image is clicked the larger hidden
image appears and is hidden on the next mouse click. There are other ways
but these are the easiest.

 

[Ginger]

Thank you for your advice. I decided to go with hiding the large image
on the slide and clicking to unhide it - this seems a fairly
straightforward way to accomplish the desired effect.

Unfortunately, I'm still having problems. Here's the approach I'm
trying, and it's not working at the moment:

Copy the both the large image and the small image to the slide.
Send to back the large image.
Create a macro that brings the large image to the front
(msoBringToFront)
Set an action on the small image that runs the macro when the small
image is clicked.
Create a macro that sends the large image to the back (msoSendToBack)
Set an action on the large image that runs the macro when the large
image is clicked.

I am fairly confident that the macros are correct because they work
when I'm in normal view and I run them through the VBA toolbar. But
when I'm in the slideshow and I click on the small image, the large
image does not come forward.

Is there some other way that I should try to hide/unhide the large
image besides changing the order (bring to front, send to back)? Or is
this the right way and I'm just doing it wrong?


-Ginger

 

[LVTravel]

Thank you for your advice. I decided to go with hiding the large image
on the slide and clicking to unhide it - this seems a fairly
straightforward way to accomplish the desired effect.

Unfortunately, I'm still having problems. Here's the approach I'm
trying, and it's not working at the moment:

Copy the both the large image and the small image to the slide.
Send to back the large image.
Create a macro that brings the large image to the front
(msoBringToFront)
Set an action on the small image that runs the macro when the small
image is clicked.
Create a macro that sends the large image to the back (msoSendToBack)
Set an action on the large image that runs the macro when the large
image is clicked.

I am fairly confident that the macros are correct because they work
when I'm in normal view and I run them through the VBA toolbar. But
when I'm in the slideshow and I click on the small image, the large
image does not come forward.

Is there some other way that I should try to hide/unhide the large
image besides changing the order (bring to front, send to back)? Or is
this the right way and I'm just doing it wrong?


-Ginger

Ginger, Use Custom Animation if you are not having to publish constantly
changing data and can copy and paste the chart into PPT.

When you copy and paste the chart onto the PPT slide try this:

Create one small image and then the large image on the same slide. Send
the large image to the back temporarily.

Position the small image so that it will be covered by the large image when
the large image is displayed.

Right click the small image and select Custom Animation. In the Custom
Animation window that opens on the right side, click Add effect. Choose
Appear and then Modify:Appear, Start, change to With Previous.

Send that small image to the back.

Click the large image. In Custom Animation on the right you need to now do
a few things.

1. Click Add Effect. Change the Entrance to Appear. Ensure that Start, On
Click is selected.

2. Click the drop down arrow on the Object that is highlighted. Click
Effect Options. On Effect Tab click After Animation dropdown and select Hide
on next mouse click.

If all is set correctly you should now be able to run the slide show and see
the small image on the screen but when you click on it the large image
appears over top of the small image. When you click again the small image
reappears when the large image disappears.


If you need to have many small images on the screen to enlarge you need to
use hyperlinks to slides with just the large image on them. To get to
hyperlinks you need to Right click on an image and then click Action
Settings. Hyperlink is easy to set up once you get the hang of it.

Office Help does help a lot with the setup and if you type or cut and paste
this phrase into Office PPT 2003 help it comes up with a lot of help.
"hyperlink to a custom show or location in current presentation"