Google Slides – Object Animations – Bulleted Text | Fade in/out Using Styling

[Jim -]

After searching Google Groups and the App Script documentation, I was unable to find a way to extend Google Slides – Object Animations using an extension or Add-on to control text fading in/out. I did find the App Script documentation on Editing & Styling, but the examples didn’t cover my requirements.

I’m new to App Script, but do have some JavaScript experience. This sort of animation could be handled by setting the level and timing of text line opacity on mouse-click (element.style.opacity).

Specific requirements for Object Animation: 1. Fade in (0-100% opacity) first line of text in bulleted list on mouse-click, 2. Fade in second line of text on subsequent mouse-click and fade out (100% to 25% opacity) the prior line of text and 3. After the final line of text is displayed, the subsequent mouse-click would restore the opacity (25%-100% opacity) to all lines of text. This would preferably be a Standalone solution to avoid unnecessary authorizations.

Thx in advance. Graphic of animated sequence is below.

 

Example

Bullet Text Fade In/Out on Mouse Click

[Clark Lind]

You should be able to do all this with the built-in animations. What are you trying to achieve by doing it with an add-on/extension?

[Jim -]

Hi Clark, thanks for the response.

I'm open to using the existing functions in Slide, but couldn't seem to get the effect. 

I was trying to get each bullet to fade in on a mouse-click, with the previous bullet "fading" (opacity 25%) on the same click. Once the final bullet is displayed (with the previous bullets faded), the next click would restore the opacity of all bullets to 100%.

I was able to pull it off in PointPoint by overlapping two text field and getting creative with the onboard animations, but didn't see an obvious solution in Slides. I was trying to avoid having to "stack" fields, but if there's no way around that, then writing a function would work. I was surprised there weren't more extensions for "look feel", but I imagine most are exploring the power of integrating with other apps in the Google cloud.

[Clark Lind]

If you have done this in PP already, try uploading your PP file, open it in Slides, Save as Slides, and open the new copy and see if it got converted properly. 

If not, then we can try to find a solution. 

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