Sparkle text

[Pat]

Microsoft Word 2000 has a really great little sparkle text
animation found under Format, Font, Text Effects tab.

I'd like to use that in PowerPoint but I can't find any
such Text Effects in PowerPoint -- Nor can I insert a Word
document formatted with the sparkle text and get it to
work in PowerPoint.

[Echo S]

Weird.

I thought maybe you could save the Word doc as HTML and use whatever it used
to create the text animation. But guess what--saving as HTML turns the
sparkle into italicized text.

Not a clue how you could do this in PPT without creating an aniGIF in
another program.

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[B]

It is weird that PowerPoint (a "graphically intense" presentation program)
doesn't have better symbol controls and options.

For instance, if you want to insert a web-ding of a telephone, it's easier
to cut and paste from Word, than to add it from a native PowerPoint font.
Why don't they use the insert symbol dialog box that Word does?

But while I pose this question, I also offer this possible explanation. It
may stem from improvements in quality and reduction of price of the
projectors recently. The first ones were many thousands of dollars and
800x600 at best. It's kinda hard to show Old English swirls on a coarse
screen (even if it isn't suffering from STS (scruffy text syndrome).

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[B]

Hmmm... Humble Pie

Ok, I might have fallen asleep while reading a chapter or two. Thank you
Michael for showing me how to do what I couldn't find whenever I was looking
for the silly thing. The silly symbol dialog box.

I guess MS does know what they are doing. <vbg>

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[Michael Koerner]

>> For instance, if you want to insert a web-ding of a telephone, it's easier
to cut and paste from Word, than to add it from a native PowerPoint font. Why
don't they use the insert symbol dialog box that Word does? <<

They do, in your text box, position your cursor where you want your
telephone. then click on Insert, Symbol, select the Winding Font, navigate to
your telephone (character 40) and select insert.

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