Superimposing Animation over Animation

I have a slide with three ovals in a horizontal line, each with text inside,
and an arrow pointing from oval one to oval two, and from oval two to oval
three. I want the entire pattern to appear at once, but I couldn't figure
out how to do that with one animation, so I animated the five objects to all
appear at the same time. Kind of sloppy, but it did what I wanted! But once
these objects appear, I then also want a large X to appear over them,
essentially crossing them out, and I can't figure out how to do this. I
tried to superimpose a rectangle over the objects, but I didn't know how to
draw the X inside it. I also tried this unsuccessfully with a text box.
Could someone please help me with this?

To get the five shapes to appear together either do what you did or ctrl
click to select them all and then right click and choose grouping group.
For the X insert a text box, type in an X, select it and make it red and say
96 points (if you want bigger type the number in manually) drag it over the
shapes and give it an entrance animation. Make this "with previous" and then
double click the entry and in the timing tab set a delay of whatever you
would like.

Easier to do than describe!!
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"Andrea" wrote:

I have a slide with three ovals in a horizontal line, each with text inside,
and an arrow pointing from oval one to oval two, and from oval two to oval
three. I want the entire pattern to appear at once, but I couldn't figure
out how to do that with one animation, so I animated the five objects to all
appear at the same time. Kind of sloppy, but it did what I wanted! But once
these objects appear, I then also want a large X to appear over them,
essentially crossing them out, and I can't figure out how to do this. I
tried to superimpose a rectangle over the objects, but I didn't know how to
draw the X inside it. I also tried this unsuccessfully with a text box.
Could someone please help me with this?

I have done a sample on this. See if this suits your needs:
http://pptheaven.mvps.org/crossout.ppt
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"Andrea" wrote:

I have a slide with three ovals in a horizontal line, each with text inside,
and an arrow pointing from oval one to oval two, and from oval two to oval
three. I want the entire pattern to appear at once, but I couldn't figure
out how to do that with one animation, so I animated the five objects to all
appear at the same time. Kind of sloppy, but it did what I wanted! But once
these objects appear, I then also want a large X to appear over them,
essentially crossing them out, and I can't figure out how to do this. I
tried to superimpose a rectangle over the objects, but I didn't know how to
draw the X inside it. I also tried this unsuccessfully with a text box.
Could someone please help me with this?

This is exactly what I wanted! Grouping the ovals is a much more elegant
solution than my original method. The X wasn't quite right because it didn't
actually cross out all three ovals, but the sample cross-out worked very
well. Thanks to you both.

-Andrea

tohlz wrote:
I have done a sample on this. See if this suits your needs:
http://pptheaven.mvps.org/crossout.ppt

I have a slide with three ovals in a horizontal line, each with text
inside, and an arrow pointing from oval one to oval two, and from oval
two to oval three. I want the entire pattern to appear at once, but I
couldn't figure out how to do that with one animation, so I animated the
five objects to all appear at the same time. Kind of sloppy, but it did
what I wanted! But once these objects appear, I then also want a large X
to appear over them, essentially crossing them out, and I can't figure
out how to do this. I tried to superimpose a rectangle over the objects,
but I didn't know how to draw the X inside it. I also tried this
unsuccessfully with a text box. Could someone please help me with this?