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cowpants
Hi. I have Windows XP Pro SP2, Office 2003. I have a complex bubble chart.
There are 6 series (countries) with ~50 data points each (years). I need to
animate them so all the 1870 bubbles come up at once, then 1871, 1872,
....2003. I can't get ppt to animate by category at all (too many data
points?) so had to ungroup... was able to animate by country, but now they
want it by year. Many of the bubbles are on top of each other. The choices I
can think of are: (a) Redrive the data so years are series, animate by
series, but I'd have to manually recolor each bubble -- though that might
still be too much data to animate; OR (b) Ungroup the chart, group each year,
and animate that way, using a live copy of the chart as a guide. Either way
is massively time-intensive and suboptimal, though (a) at least preserves the
data, IF I can animate that much data. Any ideas? (I can send you the chart
for clarity.)
There are 6 series (countries) with ~50 data points each (years). I need to
animate them so all the 1870 bubbles come up at once, then 1871, 1872,
....2003. I can't get ppt to animate by category at all (too many data
points?) so had to ungroup... was able to animate by country, but now they
want it by year. Many of the bubbles are on top of each other. The choices I
can think of are: (a) Redrive the data so years are series, animate by
series, but I'd have to manually recolor each bubble -- though that might
still be too much data to animate; OR (b) Ungroup the chart, group each year,
and animate that way, using a live copy of the chart as a guide. Either way
is massively time-intensive and suboptimal, though (a) at least preserves the
data, IF I can animate that much data. Any ideas? (I can send you the chart
for clarity.)