Newbie PowerPoint 2000 animation question

[David E.]

Anyone,

I'm trying to do something in PowerPoint 2000 which is probably simple for
experienced folks, but I'm stumped.

I have a slide with nothing more than a title and a numbered list consisting
of a few items. The items represent a sequence of steps to reach a goal.
E.g., the title might be "How to open a door" and the list might be: 1. Walk
up to door 2. Turn handle 3. Push door open.

Now, suppose that suddenly, someone locks the door from the inside, thereby
requiring the insertion of two steps: 1a. Insert key into lock 1b. Turn key
in lock.

What I want to happen on my slide is to begin with my original list of three
items. Then I want to animate items 2 and 3, by making them appear to drop
down to a lower position on the slide, leaving a gap for the insertion of
steps 1a and 1b. Finally, I want to fly in steps 1a and 1b into the space on
the slide where items 2 and 3 used to be. This would leave a slide with five
items in the list: 1, 1a, 1b, 2, 3.

I actually don't care about the numbers; that would be gravy. It's the text
I care about. Obviously, my presentation isn't about opening doors, but it
is about showing how a process changes by the insertion of intermediate
steps. This was the best way I could think of to illustrate this visually,
but I can't figure out how to do it in PowerPoint 2000.

Is it possible? Can anyone help me? Thank you so much!

David

 

[Echo S]

You would need to use individual textboxes for the various pieces of text.
So 1, 2, and 3 would each be a textbox, then the 1a/1b would be another
textbox.

You would then create autoshapes with background-colored fills to cover #2
and 3. Have them come in on mouseclick. Then animate in a copy of textboxes
2 and 3 in their appropriate lower places. Have these happen automatically
0-seconds after previous. Do the same with the textbox for 1a/1b.

You won't be able to make the textboxes for 2 and 3 really look like they're
moving lower. (You'd need PPT 2002 [aka PPT XP] or 2003 to do that with
motion paths.) But you can use a crawl animation or something like that, so
it's not quite as abrupt as just an "appear."

 

[David E.]

Thanks very much; that works very nicely!

David

You would need to use individual textboxes for the various pieces of text.
So 1, 2, and 3 would each be a textbox, then the 1a/1b would be another
textbox.

You would then create autoshapes with background-colored fills to cover #2
and 3. Have them come in on mouseclick. Then animate in a copy of textboxes
2 and 3 in their appropriate lower places. Have these happen automatically
0-seconds after previous. Do the same with the textbox for 1a/1b.

You won't be able to make the textboxes for 2 and 3 really look like they're
moving lower. (You'd need PPT 2002 [aka PPT XP] or 2003 to do that with
motion paths.) But you can use a crawl animation or something like that, so
it's not quite as abrupt as just an "appear."

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

Anyone,

I'm trying to do something in PowerPoint 2000 which is probably simple for
experienced folks, but I'm stumped.

I have a slide with nothing more than a title and a numbered list consisting
of a few items. The items represent a sequence of steps to reach a goal.
E.g., the title might be "How to open a door" and the list might be: 1. Walk
up to door 2. Turn handle 3. Push door open.

Now, suppose that suddenly, someone locks the door from the inside, thereby
requiring the insertion of two steps: 1a. Insert key into lock 1b. Turn key
in lock.

What I want to happen on my slide is to begin with my original list of three
items. Then I want to animate items 2 and 3, by making them appear to drop
down to a lower position on the slide, leaving a gap for the insertion of
steps 1a and 1b. Finally, I want to fly in steps 1a and 1b into the

space

on
the slide where items 2 and 3 used to be. This would leave a slide with five
items in the list: 1, 1a, 1b, 2, 3.

I actually don't care about the numbers; that would be gravy. It's the text
I care about. Obviously, my presentation isn't about opening doors, but it
is about showing how a process changes by the insertion of intermediate
steps. This was the best way I could think of to illustrate this visually,
but I can't figure out how to do it in PowerPoint 2000.

Is it possible? Can anyone help me? Thank you so much!

David