Thanks for the additional info, littlecross. I think that showing
with the PPT Viewer won't make a difference in this situation, but
it often does, so I'm glad you mentioned it!
Based on your additional description, what I think you want to do is
fade one pie in as one fades out. What would be cooler, though, is
to have each pie circle in as the other circles out -- kinda like a
weather radar thing, you know?
So here's how I'd approach it.
I'd make one piechart, apply the animation effects to it, copy the
chart, and change the data for each of the other 4 pies. This keeps
all the piecharts the same size. It's much much much easier to do it
this way than to try to size each individually. It also means you
already have the animations on each pie, so you don't have to do so
much repetitive work setting those up.
Okay, so make your first pie chart,
Oh, wait. Go ahead and make your first chart, but before you get much
further, and definitely before you get ready to copy/paste the chart
to create a second chart, go to Tools/Autocorrect and turn off
Automatic Layout for Inserted Objects. This will keep your charts
from resizing when you don't want them to.
Okay, so now make your first pie chart.
Click on the slide to deactivate the chart, then right-click the
chart and select Custom Animation to open the Custom Animation task
pane.
With the pie still selected on the slide (not activated, just
selected), click Add Effect in the Custom Animation task pane and
choose Entrance/Wheel and click OK. (You may have to click "more
effects" to see the Wheel option.)
After you've applied the wheel entrance, in the task pane, change
the spokes to 1. Change the speed if you want, and change the start
to with previous or after previous if you want.
Now that the animation is set, copy the chart and paste it on the
slide, then double-click and change the data to create the 2nd year
pie. Modify the animation settings in the Custom Animation task pane
if necessary. Also, take a quick peek at
http://www.echosvoice.com/changeanimation.htm#addingvschanging --
make sure you know the difference between adding an animation and
changing an existing animation. It's easy to end up with a whole
bunch of animations set on one object without realizing it.
You might want to change the colors of every other pie to a lighter
or darker shade of the colors on the previous pie. If they're
exactly the same, it's hard to tell the difference with the wheel
animation.
Finally, select all the pie charts and use the align tools
(Draw/Align or Distribute) to place the pies exactly one on top of
the other.
A fade animation (or a lot of others, for that matter) will also work
instead of a wheel. You can also intersperse exit animations with
entrance animations. Apply the exit animation the same way you would
an entrance animation, then use the re-order buttons at the bottom
of the Custom Animation task pane to order the animations.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
littlecross said:
I am using PPT 2003, but when copying the presentation to a cd it
opens in PPT viewer if that helps! What i mean by a moving pie
chart is one that would have a similar effect as putting 5 pie
charts on top of each with a 2 second interval in between each(each
chart representing a year), so that the changes are shown gradually
over a 5 year period. Is there anyway i can have just one pie
chart which represents this? in movie maker perhaps?
:
littlecross wrote:
I am created a presentation in powerpoint, but want to create an
animated chart. In short i want pie chart whose segments move
representing a 5 year timeline. e.g one segment increases
gradually as the others decrease etc. Is there anyway i can do
this and import it into PPT?
Thank you in advance!
I'm having a hard time imagining pie chart pieces moving to
represent a timeline.
Regardless, whether you can do this in PPT or not depends on which
version of PPT you're using. Which version might that be?
