Want to change images in Powerpoint presentation without losing animations

[Pat]

Hi.

I have a huge file that includes photos (many slides have two to four photos on the slide) and each photo has it's own custom animation.

Is there a way that I can just insert a new, different picture, into the spot of the current photo (to replace the photo) but keep the current animations?

This file is used for our students at their graduation ceremony. Instead of creating a new presentation each time, I wish there was some way that all the custom animations could stay but I could insert or copy and paste a new, different picture.

HELP!!! Is this possible? I am using Office XP.

Thanks.

Pat

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Use PowerTools Edit toolbar - one of the best add-ins possible for
animations! Look at the 'animation settings painter' tool.
http://corpimaging.com/PowerTools/pt-Edit.htm

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"Pat" <mwint...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[Kurt]

Hi Pat,
With datapoint you can build dynamic presentations that can achieve what you
want. What you have to do is to place the names of the pictures in a
database, excel or text file. Then you can create a slide with some 3-4
pictures in it, link to your data source, activate scrolling, set your
custom animation and generate a new offline presentation.
The results is that you have a large presentation with all pictures in it
with your animation settings, all automatically with a few mouse clicks.
You can download datapoint from www.take-off.as/datapoint.
Best regards
Kurt.

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[Austin Myers]

Sure can Pat, and you can do it without the need of add-ins.

Instead of embedding the picture/image you can link to it. The advantage is
that you change the images at the source file and PPT automatically uses it
the next time the presentation is ran.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

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[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello Pat,

This ability has been in PowerPoint since (at least) PowerPoint 97,
although in a somewhat limited fashion (using placeholders for pictures).

Basically, if you have an animation effect applied to the "Object area for
AutoLayouts" in your Slide Master, and you insert your pictures using the
slide autolayouts using the object (PPT 97/2000) or content (PPT 2002/2003)
placholders in those layouts to contain the pictures, the pictures will be
automatically animated.

Then, if you delete a picture it is replaced by the empty object/content
placeholder and you can insert a new picture into the placeholder and the
animation is applied automatically to the new picture. The steps vary
somewhat from version to version so I'll give sample steps for the latest 2
versions of PowerPoint (2002 and 2003).

1) Apply entry animation (Fly from left) to "Object Area for AutoLayouts"
in Slide Master
2) In new slide choose slide layout with content placeholders
3) Insert picture into slide by clicking on the "Insert Picture" or "Insert
Clip Art" button in the middle of the content placeholder (and insert your
picture)
4) Verify that the picture animates as intended
5) Delete picture (picture is replaced by empty content placeholder
6) Repeat step 3 to put a new picture in the placeholder
7) Verify that the animation still works for the new picture.

The additional benefit of PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 is that, with multiple
masters, you can have different slide masters with different animations
effects (or none at all) and you change/remove the animation from the
pictures in any slide by simply applying a different master (design) to the
selected slide.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that the ability to
retain animations when replacing one object with another (such as changing
pictures) should be included in PowerPoint (without have to resort to an
add-in, VBA or 3rd party tools), don't forget to send your feedback to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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