Custom animation -- appear and dim

Fred Smith

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Sep 28, 2008, 9:47:12 AM9/28/08

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I have a bulleted list with a custom animation of Appear on each point. Each
time I click the mouse, a new point appears, and after the last point, it
advances to the next slide.

I like the idea of dimming the previous points when the next one appears.
However, when I add the dimming effect, the slide doesn't advance after the
last point. When I click the mouse after the last point has appeared, it
dims. I have to click again to get the slide to advance.

Is it possible to use the dimming effect, but get the slide to advance by a
mouse click after the last point has appeared?

Thanks,
Fred.

Echo S

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Sep 28, 2008, 10:07:27 AM9/28/08

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Use the downward-pointing chevron in the animation pane to expand the
animation. Choose the last animation and remove the dim from it.
http://www.echosvoice.com/individualbullets.htm#IndividualBulletedTextAnimation
has some screenshots of something similar.

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Fred Smith

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Sep 28, 2008, 12:19:33 PM9/28/08

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Thanks, Echo. Just what I needed.

Is there a way I can apply this to all selected slides at once, or do I have
to modify the slides one at a time?

Thanks,
Fred

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Echo S

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Sep 28, 2008, 1:00:16 PM9/28/08

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Generally speaking, you'd have to do it to the slide master, but I don't
think that will work with this particular animation. PPT wouldn't know that
you wanted this to apply only to the last bullet point, so it would remove
the dim from all the bullets, I think.

Looks like you'll have to do it to them one at a time. Probably this could
be done in code, though. How's your VBA?

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Fred Smith

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Sep 28, 2008, 2:23:46 PM9/28/08

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My Excel VBA is pretty good. My PPT VBA is non-existant.

As I had only 18 slides to change, so I did them manually.

Thanks for your help
Fred

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