Random Entrance Animations

[Microsoft]

Does anyone have a solution. Have prepared hundreds of presentations and
have many entrance animation effects set as random on text fields coming
into a slide. With 2002 there is a 'credits' animation that is one of the
random effects that gets triggered and that caused text that worked fine in
previous versions to transition in and settle to go off the screen. Any
ideas? Is there a way to edit or delete the animations? I know we could go
back and change all the presentations but there has got to be a way to
defeat this one (credits) effect from being used and causing my text to
scroll off of the screen. I have done quite a bit of searching on this and
didn't find anyone else with the issue. I am very surprised.
Thanks in Advance

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the ability to allow you to choose a subset of
animation or transition effects to be used when the Random Effects or
Random Transition options are selected.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly PowerPoint
should have this kind of feature, don't forget to send your feedback to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible. Each submission should be
a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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[B]

But, because there are those situations where the unplanned is desired, they
had the foresight to include VBA.

It is possible to programmatically change the animations. Therefore, if you
wanted to do learn the VBA (or pay a starving coder) you could use program
logic something like this:

If this is one of the slides with animations ...then ...
...pick a random number
...depending on the number chosen, set the animation for this text box from
a list of acceptable animations.

Keep in mind that many animations will have properties that will also need
to be set.

B

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[Mike M.]

Keep in mind as soon as you introduce VBA you can no longer use the free
viewer. Each person you want to distribute to has to have PowerPoint.

But, because there are those situations where the unplanned is desired, they
had the foresight to include VBA.

It is possible to programmatically change the animations. Therefore, if you
wanted to do learn the VBA (or pay a starving coder) you could use program
logic something like this:

If this is one of the slides with animations ...then ...
...pick a random number
...depending on the number chosen, set the animation for this text box from
a list of acceptable animations.

Keep in mind that many animations will have properties that will also need
to be set.

B

--
Please spend a few minutes checking out www.pptfaq.com This link will
answer most of our questions, before you think to ask them.

Change org to com to defuse anti-spam, ant-virus, anti-nuisance
misdirection.

Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the ability to allow you to choose a subset of
animation or transition effects to be used when the Random Effects or
Random Transition options are selected.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly PowerPoint
should have this kind of feature, don't forget to send your feedback to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible. Each submission should be
a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Use of any included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm