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David Leonard
I want to have lines on a graph to be seperate objects so i can animate
them. Does anyone Know how to do this?
them. Does anyone Know how to do this?
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Nikki
Try drawing each line separately using the "drawing toolbar". The lines will
be set up as separate objects, and you can animate each line separately.
be set up as separate objects, and you can animate each line separately.
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Nikki
There is an Option in "custiom animation" in "Chart Effects" that allows you
to appear as one object, or series, etc.....
to appear as one object, or series, etc.....
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Kathy J
David,
Some of the animations can only be applied to the chart as a whole. Others
can be applied to each element of the slide. Play around with the different
animations and see if you can find one that will let you animate exactly
what you want.
As a last resort, make a copy of the chart and ungroup it. You will lose the
connection to the data (that's why you are going to work on a copy), but you
will be able to group the elements as you want and animate the groups.
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
Some of the animations can only be applied to the chart as a whole. Others
can be applied to each element of the slide. Play around with the different
animations and see if you can find one that will let you animate exactly
what you want.
As a last resort, make a copy of the chart and ungroup it. You will lose the
connection to the data (that's why you are going to work on a copy), but you
will be able to group the elements as you want and animate the groups.
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
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David Bowers
Dear Kathryn,
I have just started to convert my stone-age overheads into Powerpoint
slides. I want to animate a trend line drawn though a scatter plot generated
by the MS Word chart tool. I have ben spectacularly unsuccessful! I know
it's possible because I saw it work in a presentation I saw a few month's
ago. I have tried selecting (clicking) the trend line but I can only get the
whole chart to animate, not just the line. I have also tried ungrouping with
no success. Do you have any ideas? Or will I find the answer in your book?
Chin chin,
David Bowers
I have just started to convert my stone-age overheads into Powerpoint
slides. I want to animate a trend line drawn though a scatter plot generated
by the MS Word chart tool. I have ben spectacularly unsuccessful! I know
it's possible because I saw it work in a presentation I saw a few month's
ago. I have tried selecting (clicking) the trend line but I can only get the
whole chart to animate, not just the line. I have also tried ungrouping with
no success. Do you have any ideas? Or will I find the answer in your book?
Chin chin,
David Bowers
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Echo S
Which version of PPT are you using, David? We can give you specific
instructions if we know what you're using there.
Also, you want to click on the slide to deactivate your chart. Then select
the chart (single click) and choose Custom Animation from the Slide Show
menu. Add your animation and look for a "group" option.
What kind of "group" (by series, by category, etc.) is available depends on
a combination of the chart type and specific animation you've selected.
Usually a simple Wipe animation (which would be good for a trend line) can
be applied by groups series and category.
instructions if we know what you're using there.
Also, you want to click on the slide to deactivate your chart. Then select
the chart (single click) and choose Custom Animation from the Slide Show
menu. Add your animation and look for a "group" option.
What kind of "group" (by series, by category, etc.) is available depends on
a combination of the chart type and specific animation you've selected.
Usually a simple Wipe animation (which would be good for a trend line) can
be applied by groups series and category.
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David Bowers
Dear Echo S,
Thanks for your kind reply which I have printed for later digestion. I am
using PPT in Office 2003 (this is the one which doesn't have tabs?), which I
update from Office Updates regularly. Anticipating your reply with great
excitement! In the demo I saw the trend line "opened" from the middle, both
leftwards and rightwards. I would also like to animate the interconnect line
joing a series of points in a time-series plot.
David
Thanks for your kind reply which I have printed for later digestion. I am
using PPT in Office 2003 (this is the one which doesn't have tabs?), which I
update from Office Updates regularly. Anticipating your reply with great
excitement! In the demo I saw the trend line "opened" from the middle, both
leftwards and rightwards. I would also like to animate the interconnect line
joing a series of points in a time-series plot.
David
Echo S said:
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David Bowers
Dera Steve,
Many thanks for replying to my trend-line animation query. I will try what
you suggest.
David Bowers
Many thanks for replying to my trend-line animation query. I will try what
you suggest.
David Bowers
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Echo S
Yes, 2003 is the one without the tabs. 
I'm not sure what demo you saw, but if the trend line appeared to "open"
from the middle, I suspect the animation used was a "box" entrance or
something.
So let's start with creating a column chart that has one series as a line.
(Pedantic instructions for those who may be following the discussion.)
Insert/New Slide. Scroll to the bottom of the slide layout pane and select
the Title and Chart slide layout. Now double-click where it says to on the
slide. You get a 3D chart with dummy data.
Right-click above the legend and select Chart Type. Choose the first chart
subtype -- the 2D clustered column. Click OK.
Now right-click the middle data series (the blue columns) and select Chart
Type again. Choose Line and click OK.
Now you have two columns and a line.
To animate this chart, you select the chart on the slide, right-click and
choose Custom Animation to turn on the animation task pane. In the Custom
Animation task pane, choose Add Effect and then select an effect. I suggest
that you choose Wipe for this exercise.
In the task pane, you'll see the chart listed (it probably says Chart 2).
Double-click that. (Or click the arrow to the right and choose Effect
Options.) On the Chart Animation tab, click the arrow next to "as one
object" in the "Group Chart" area. Choose "by series." Deselect the "animate
grid and legend" option and click OK.
Make sure AutoPreview is selected at the bottom of the taskpane and then
click the Play button to see a preview of the animation. The two columns
will wipe up from the bottom, and the line will do the same. But it will
actually look like it just appears because, of course, there's not much
vertical area on a horizontal line, so the wipe doesn't look like a wipe.
To fix this, we'll change the wipe direction on the line. Click the
downward-pointing chevron just below the chart in the taskpane to expand the
chart animation.
(http://www.echosvoice.com/individualbullets.htm#IndividualBulletedTextAnima
tion shows this for a text animation. It may help you see what's going on
here.) Click on the last series in the list (Chart 2, Series 3 here) and
then above that where it says Start: Direction: Speed:, change Direction to
From Left. Change Speed to Medium.
Click the Play button at the bottom of the taskpane. If the animation looks
pretty much like you want it to, then hit Shift+F5 to view it in slide show
view. Remember that your animation is set to play on mouseclick, so you'll
have to click to make each column and the lines animate in.
Oh, duh. Instead of Shift+F5, you can just hit the Slide Show button at the
bottom of the animation taskpane.
Hopefully that will get you going. The key is to choose animations that
allow you to animate "by series" or "by column" or "by element" in the Chart
Animation tab. (I guess PPT 2003 animation does have tabs, but I'm sure
they're not the tabs you were thinking of from PPT 97/2000!)
Note that if you've used a true trendline (right-click a data series and
choose Add Trendline), the trendline is tied to the data series. It's not
considered its own series. You'd have to animate that type of chart using
"by element in series," expand the list of animations, and change each of
the trendline segments to "from left." You could also drag (or use the
Re-Order buttons at the bottom of the taskpane) the trendline segments
together and change them to "after previous" instead of "on mouse click" so
they come in together as one line.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
I'm not sure what demo you saw, but if the trend line appeared to "open"
from the middle, I suspect the animation used was a "box" entrance or
something.
So let's start with creating a column chart that has one series as a line.
(Pedantic instructions for those who may be following the discussion.)
Insert/New Slide. Scroll to the bottom of the slide layout pane and select
the Title and Chart slide layout. Now double-click where it says to on the
slide. You get a 3D chart with dummy data.
Right-click above the legend and select Chart Type. Choose the first chart
subtype -- the 2D clustered column. Click OK.
Now right-click the middle data series (the blue columns) and select Chart
Type again. Choose Line and click OK.
Now you have two columns and a line.
To animate this chart, you select the chart on the slide, right-click and
choose Custom Animation to turn on the animation task pane. In the Custom
Animation task pane, choose Add Effect and then select an effect. I suggest
that you choose Wipe for this exercise.
In the task pane, you'll see the chart listed (it probably says Chart 2).
Double-click that. (Or click the arrow to the right and choose Effect
Options.) On the Chart Animation tab, click the arrow next to "as one
object" in the "Group Chart" area. Choose "by series." Deselect the "animate
grid and legend" option and click OK.
Make sure AutoPreview is selected at the bottom of the taskpane and then
click the Play button to see a preview of the animation. The two columns
will wipe up from the bottom, and the line will do the same. But it will
actually look like it just appears because, of course, there's not much
vertical area on a horizontal line, so the wipe doesn't look like a wipe.
To fix this, we'll change the wipe direction on the line. Click the
downward-pointing chevron just below the chart in the taskpane to expand the
chart animation.
(http://www.echosvoice.com/individualbullets.htm#IndividualBulletedTextAnima
tion shows this for a text animation. It may help you see what's going on
here.) Click on the last series in the list (Chart 2, Series 3 here) and
then above that where it says Start: Direction: Speed:, change Direction to
From Left. Change Speed to Medium.
Click the Play button at the bottom of the taskpane. If the animation looks
pretty much like you want it to, then hit Shift+F5 to view it in slide show
view. Remember that your animation is set to play on mouseclick, so you'll
have to click to make each column and the lines animate in.
Oh, duh. Instead of Shift+F5, you can just hit the Slide Show button at the
bottom of the animation taskpane.
Hopefully that will get you going. The key is to choose animations that
allow you to animate "by series" or "by column" or "by element" in the Chart
Animation tab. (I guess PPT 2003 animation does have tabs, but I'm sure
they're not the tabs you were thinking of from PPT 97/2000!)
Note that if you've used a true trendline (right-click a data series and
choose Add Trendline), the trendline is tied to the data series. It's not
considered its own series. You'd have to animate that type of chart using
"by element in series," expand the list of animations, and change each of
the trendline segments to "from left." You could also drag (or use the
Re-Order buttons at the bottom of the taskpane) the trendline segments
together and change them to "after previous" instead of "on mouse click" so
they come in together as one line.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
David Bowers said:
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David Bowers
Dear Echo S,
Many thanks for your reply. I have been away for a week or so and will be
away for another week from tomorrow. But I have printed your reply and I am
optimistic that you will have helped me solve the problem. I'm glad you
assumed I would need it blow by blow since I am not exactly the smartest bit
in the byte. I will get back to you when I've had a chance to try your
suggestions.
David Bowers
Many thanks for your reply. I have been away for a week or so and will be
away for another week from tomorrow. But I have printed your reply and I am
optimistic that you will have helped me solve the problem. I'm glad you
assumed I would need it blow by blow since I am not exactly the smartest bit
in the byte. I will get back to you when I've had a chance to try your
suggestions.
David Bowers
Echo S said:Yes, 2003 is the one without the tabs.
I'm not sure what demo you saw, but if the trend line appeared to "open"
from the middle, I suspect the animation used was a "box" entrance or
something.
So let's start with creating a column chart that has one series as a line.
(Pedantic instructions for those who may be following the discussion.)
Insert/New Slide. Scroll to the bottom of the slide layout pane and select
the Title and Chart slide layout. Now double-click where it says to on the
slide. You get a 3D chart with dummy data.
Right-click above the legend and select Chart Type. Choose the first chart
subtype -- the 2D clustered column. Click OK.
Now right-click the middle data series (the blue columns) and select Chart
Type again. Choose Line and click OK.
Now you have two columns and a line.
To animate this chart, you select the chart on the slide, right-click and
choose Custom Animation to turn on the animation task pane. In the Custom
Animation task pane, choose Add Effect and then select an effect. I suggest
that you choose Wipe for this exercise.
In the task pane, you'll see the chart listed (it probably says Chart 2).
Double-click that. (Or click the arrow to the right and choose Effect
Options.) On the Chart Animation tab, click the arrow next to "as one
object" in the "Group Chart" area. Choose "by series." Deselect the "animate
grid and legend" option and click OK.
Make sure AutoPreview is selected at the bottom of the taskpane and then
click the Play button to see a preview of the animation. The two columns
will wipe up from the bottom, and the line will do the same. But it will
actually look like it just appears because, of course, there's not much
vertical area on a horizontal line, so the wipe doesn't look like a wipe.
To fix this, we'll change the wipe direction on the line. Click the
downward-pointing chevron just below the chart in the taskpane to expand the
chart animation.
(http://www.echosvoice.com/individualbullets.htm#IndividualBulletedTextAnima
tion shows this for a text animation. It may help you see what's going on
here.) Click on the last series in the list (Chart 2, Series 3 here) and
then above that where it says Start: Direction: Speed:, change Direction to
From Left. Change Speed to Medium.
Click the Play button at the bottom of the taskpane. If the animation looks
pretty much like you want it to, then hit Shift+F5 to view it in slide show
view. Remember that your animation is set to play on mouseclick, so you'll
have to click to make each column and the lines animate in.
Oh, duh. Instead of Shift+F5, you can just hit the Slide Show button at the
bottom of the animation taskpane.
Hopefully that will get you going. The key is to choose animations that
allow you to animate "by series" or "by column" or "by element" in the Chart
Animation tab. (I guess PPT 2003 animation does have tabs, but I'm sure
they're not the tabs you were thinking of from PPT 97/2000!)
Note that if you've used a true trendline (right-click a data series and
choose Add Trendline), the trendline is tied to the data series. It's not
considered its own series. You'd have to animate that type of chart using
"by element in series," expand the list of animations, and change each of
the trendline segments to "from left." You could also drag (or use the
Re-Order buttons at the bottom of the taskpane) the trendline segments
together and change them to "after previous" instead of "on mouse click" so
they come in together as one line.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
David Bowers said:
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Echo S
You're welcome, David. I'm glad to know that *someone* might find this
lengthy thing useful, anyway!
Holler back if you need more info.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
lengthy thing useful, anyway!
Holler back if you need more info.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
David Bowers said:Dear Echo S,
Many thanks for your reply. I have been away for a week or so and will be
away for another week from tomorrow. But I have printed your reply and I am
optimistic that you will have helped me solve the problem. I'm glad you
assumed I would need it blow by blow since I am not exactly the smartest bit
in the byte. I will get back to you when I've had a chance to try your
suggestions.
David Bowers
Echo S said:Yes, 2003 is the one without the tabs.
I'm not sure what demo you saw, but if the trend line appeared to "open"
from the middle, I suspect the animation used was a "box" entrance or
something.
So let's start with creating a column chart that has one series as a line.
(Pedantic instructions for those who may be following the discussion.)
Insert/New Slide. Scroll to the bottom of the slide layout pane and select
the Title and Chart slide layout. Now double-click where it says to on the
slide. You get a 3D chart with dummy data.
Right-click above the legend and select Chart Type. Choose the first chart
subtype -- the 2D clustered column. Click OK.
Now right-click the middle data series (the blue columns) and select Chart
Type again. Choose Line and click OK.
Now you have two columns and a line.
To animate this chart, you select the chart on the slide, right-click and
choose Custom Animation to turn on the animation task pane. In the Custom
Animation task pane, choose Add Effect and then select an effect. I suggest
that you choose Wipe for this exercise.
In the task pane, you'll see the chart listed (it probably says Chart 2).
Double-click that. (Or click the arrow to the right and choose Effect
Options.) On the Chart Animation tab, click the arrow next to "as one
object" in the "Group Chart" area. Choose "by series." Deselect the "animate
grid and legend" option and click OK.
Make sure AutoPreview is selected at the bottom of the taskpane and then
click the Play button to see a preview of the animation. The two columns
will wipe up from the bottom, and the line will do the same. But it will
actually look like it just appears because, of course, there's not much
vertical area on a horizontal line, so the wipe doesn't look like a wipe.
To fix this, we'll change the wipe direction on the line. Click the
downward-pointing chevron just below the chart in the taskpane to expand the
chart animation.
(http://www.echosvoice.com/individualbullets.htm#IndividualBulletedTextAnima
tion shows this for a text animation. It may help you see what's going on
here.) Click on the last series in the list (Chart 2, Series 3 here) and
then above that where it says Start: Direction: Speed:, change Direction to
From Left. Change Speed to Medium.
Click the Play button at the bottom of the taskpane. If the animation looks
pretty much like you want it to, then hit Shift+F5 to view it in slide show
view. Remember that your animation is set to play on mouseclick, so you'll
have to click to make each column and the lines animate in.
Oh, duh. Instead of Shift+F5, you can just hit the Slide Show button at the
bottom of the animation taskpane.
Hopefully that will get you going. The key is to choose animations that
allow you to animate "by series" or "by column" or "by element" in the Chart
Animation tab. (I guess PPT 2003 animation does have tabs, but I'm sure
they're not the tabs you were thinking of from PPT 97/2000!)
Note that if you've used a true trendline (right-click a data series and
choose Add Trendline), the trendline is tied to the data series. It's not
considered its own series. You'd have to animate that type of chart using
"by element in series," expand the list of animations, and change each of
the trendline segments to "from left." You could also drag (or use the
Re-Order buttons at the bottom of the taskpane) the trendline segments
together and change them to "after previous" instead of "on mouse click" so
they come in together as one line.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
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