Animations don't always work

[DrMom]

I'm a medical student and we are required to do a lot of presentations. I've
noticed that sometimes the animations, sounds, and videos work in own PPT
presentations(on hospital computers) and sometimes they don't or there will
be limited animation. This has happened so often that many of the other
students have given up on using animations. Time is a premium for us and it
is very frustrating to take the time to make the PPT interesting only to have
it fail . Does anyone have any suggestions or tips to help us figure out
what is going on?????

 

[Austin Myers]

Please be a bit more specific what you mean by animations.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[DrMom]

What I mean is the custom animations for the lines of the slides as they
enter so that all of the information is not shown all at once. It always
works right onmy computer but not always on others. In addition I've hd some
of my linked videos work and some not (again they always work on the home
computer) Thanks for any help that you can give me.

 

[Austin Myers]

My first guess for the animations is that you used a new version of
PowerPoint to create the animations and those animations do not exist in
older versions of PowerPoint.

Concerning the video, please do a quick read of the tutorial I put together
for this. It should explain what is happening here.

http://www.pfcmedia.com/Tutorial.htm



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[DrMom]

Thanks, the tutorial is VERY helpful! I will pass it on to my fellow students
and aattendings. The animation answer makes sense. Is there a way to know
what animations exist on the older versions? That way I can test it out to
see for sure if it is indeed the problem.

 

[Austin Myers]

The simplest is to choose Tools, Options, go to the Edit tab and put a
check
next to "Disable new features: New animation effects"

Then the only animation effects available will be those supported in
earlier PPT
versions.

The "other" solution is for the client machines to use the PowerPoint
viewer. That way you can use the full animations when your create a
presentation and they can see them just as you intended. There is a down
side to the viewer in that no "controls" or code (VB/VBA/Macros) is
supported.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com