Problem animating charts in 2003

[Nobby]

When running a slide show in 2003 with a chart set to 'animate by category',
the first few categories appear correctly but then the entire chart floods
with a solid colour covering the entire chart. Anyone got any ideas on what
the cause could be and how to fix it?

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Which animation are you using and on what kind of chart? (This will help us
track down what might be going on and how to get around it.)

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[Nobby]

The chart is an exploded pie chart with 3-d affect created on a datasheet
within the slide. Animation is dissolve and the chart consists of 5
categories. The first two appear correctly and then instead of the third
appearing the whole chart turns a sort of beige colour. The trigger for the
animation is mouse click and set not to dim. Hope this helps.
--
Cheers
Nobby

Which animation are you using and on what kind of chart? (This will help us
track down what might be going on and how to get around it.)

--
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

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Nobby,
Does it work better if you use fade instead of dissolve for the animation?
You might find you like that look better anyway, since it isn't based on
squares changing (which I found can happen with dissolve on busy machines).

You may also want to look at updating your video drivers - that usually
helps in these kind of situations.

--
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

The chart is an exploded pie chart with 3-d affect created on a datasheet
within the slide. Animation is dissolve and the chart consists of 5
categories. The first two appear correctly and then instead of the third
appearing the whole chart turns a sort of beige colour. The trigger for
the
animation is mouse click and set not to dim. Hope this helps.

 

[Nobby]

Kathy, thanks for your help please read on for for your information.

I tried changing the type of animation and updating drivers and office
upgrades etc. none of which worked. I have however fixed the problem
although I am not entirely certain what the cause was. I became suspicious
about the background fill for the chart and had some success when this was
removed. Finally I copied the slides onto a new slide master, which cured
the proble. I suspect this is an issue of versions, the slide master had
been created in Office 2000 and used successfully for sometime but this is
the first time I have used it on my latest machine running Office 2003!