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Henry
Folks:
MacOS 10.2.6 on G4 450, PPT X updated with 10.1.4.
I was trying out some simple animations on a 30 slide presentation. There
was a piece of legend text that was similar on many slides, so I transferred
it from slide to slide using copy-and-paste.
BTW: Nice that the paste always retains the slide positioning of the copy,
thanks MS!
On one low-numbered slide I tried an animation on that piece of text,
because on all the following slides using that line via copy-and-paste,
those lines were animated, too.
OK, no problem, I understand that animation properties might arguably follow
the text. (Maybe this capability should be controllable by the user -- but
that's a different subject altogether.)
Now, I don't recall everything I tried out, but I am sure that I always used
some very simple enter and exit effects. Strangely, the effects on later
screens were ones I am sure I never used -- I know I've NEVER used them. In
other words, PPT seemed to be setting the effect on its own.
At length, I decided against animating anything in this presentation, so I
went through it and eliminated all of them. Due to the "following" effect,
there were a lot more objects animated than I expected, and it was a bit of
a pain.
The animation dialog and some of its operations seem, well, very slow.
The operation of selecting all the objects and selecting "no effect" seemed
to be the right one for slides where there were a lot of objects, but this
did not quite seem right -- I guess because the dialog doesn't have a
notation for showing that some objects were "effected" and some weren't.
My questions:
1) Are animation properties _supposed to_ follow an object through
copying-and-pasting?
2) Is there any reason that details, such as the actual effect, should
change?
3) Is there an easier way of getting rid of all animations all at once?
4) What's the deal with the animation properties notation when more than one
object is selected? Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Henry
(e-mail address removed) remove 'zzz'
MacOS 10.2.6 on G4 450, PPT X updated with 10.1.4.
I was trying out some simple animations on a 30 slide presentation. There
was a piece of legend text that was similar on many slides, so I transferred
it from slide to slide using copy-and-paste.
BTW: Nice that the paste always retains the slide positioning of the copy,
thanks MS!
On one low-numbered slide I tried an animation on that piece of text,
because on all the following slides using that line via copy-and-paste,
those lines were animated, too.
OK, no problem, I understand that animation properties might arguably follow
the text. (Maybe this capability should be controllable by the user -- but
that's a different subject altogether.)
Now, I don't recall everything I tried out, but I am sure that I always used
some very simple enter and exit effects. Strangely, the effects on later
screens were ones I am sure I never used -- I know I've NEVER used them. In
other words, PPT seemed to be setting the effect on its own.
At length, I decided against animating anything in this presentation, so I
went through it and eliminated all of them. Due to the "following" effect,
there were a lot more objects animated than I expected, and it was a bit of
a pain.
The animation dialog and some of its operations seem, well, very slow.
The operation of selecting all the objects and selecting "no effect" seemed
to be the right one for slides where there were a lot of objects, but this
did not quite seem right -- I guess because the dialog doesn't have a
notation for showing that some objects were "effected" and some weren't.
My questions:
1) Are animation properties _supposed to_ follow an object through
copying-and-pasting?
2) Is there any reason that details, such as the actual effect, should
change?
3) Is there an easier way of getting rid of all animations all at once?
4) What's the deal with the animation properties notation when more than one
object is selected? Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Henry
(e-mail address removed) remove 'zzz'