Special effects

[EJ Dreisbach]

I've tried this before with no success and will ask this time. My boss,for
some reason, likes a look he has seen in other professional presentations. He
has a table on his slide. What he'd like to do is take that table and make it
look like it's been toren in half. Not just with a tear mark in it but to
separate the two halves where the toren line has been added? I can't find
anything that will do that type of special effect. I know it can be done so
any help out there would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Ute Simon]

I've tried this before with no success and will ask this time. My boss,for

some reason, likes a look he has seen in other professional presentations.
He
has a table on his slide. What he'd like to do is take that table and make
it
look like it's been toren in half. Not just with a tear mark in it but to
separate the two halves where the toren line has been added? I can't find
anything that will do that type of special effect. I know it can be done
so
any help out there would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

When I need this "torn page" effect, I use SnagIt. That's a program for
making and editing sceenshots, www.techsmith.com. You can make a screenshot
of the table, cut off the lower half and apply this effect to the bottom
edge. Then do the same with a screenshot of the upper half and combine those
two on the slide. But they will not be editable tables any longer.

If you need an editable table, draw a shape with top and bottom torn edge as
a freeform in PowerPoint, format it with background color and cover the
middle of the table with it.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Sandy]

Perhaps you can apply the technique found here to your table:
http://pptheaven.mvps.org/tutorials/tear.html.

Before you can use this tutorial you'll need to convert your table to an
Windows Metafile. To do this, select the table. Edit > Cut. Edit > Paste
Special. Select Windows Metafile.

Be sure to save the original table before you start this process.


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Sandy Johnson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint)