Animation Elements Greyed out

[Thoman]

Hi. In my PPT 2007, part of Office Standard, quite a few of the animation
effects are greyed out (especially in the "emphasis" category.
Would you be able to tell me how to activate these? Thanks.

 

[John Wilson]

Some effects only apply to text or shapes with text. No text and they will be
greyed out.

 

[Thoman]

That's a bummer. Animating objects is much more fun than animating just
text. Knowing this, I will try to add text - maybe just a "." to see if that
works.

John, Thank you for the answer.

 

[John Wilson]

Try this then...

Add some text to a shape (any text) and say add Swish or Flip (not possible
with no text)
Now simply delete the text!

Yep animation still works.
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