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Animation Appear-Hide-Appear sequence
I have dozens of technical presentations developed with Powerpoint 2000. When
imported into Powerpoint 2007, the Appear-Hide-Appear animations have about a one second delay between "Hide on next mouse click" and "Appear". In ppt 2000 there was no delay. In ppt 2007 there is a delay and this destroys the effect. I have tried everything I know and have talked to the first level of Microsoft Powerpoint technical support and they don't know how to fix this. The case is still open, but I am just going in a circular dance with them. I do know how to work-around this by creating many more sequential slides rather than relying on animations, but this would be very time consuming re-developing all of my presentations, and it would make all of my presentations much larger in file size. If there is not a fix, then I would have to make about 300 CD-R's to send to all of the technical trainers across North America with the corrected effects. This has become a nightmare for me. By the end of August, all employees are required to have made the transition from Office 2000 to Office 2007. Has anyone had to deal with this issue and discovered the fix? Dirt |
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Animation Appear-Hide-Appear sequence
Hi Dirt
Is this text in a placeholder or something else? If you look at the advanced animations timeline what do you see (are there gaps in the timeline, are things set to take more time than you want, etc)? Animations changed dramatically between 2000 and 2002 so I have seen issues when converting presentations... Unfortunately I don't have 2000 here to try & recreate the problem. But I'm sure we'll be able to come up with something to help :-) Lucy -- Lucy Thomson PowerPoint MVP MOS Master Instructor www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au "Dirt" wrote in message ... I have dozens of technical presentations developed with Powerpoint 2000. When imported into Powerpoint 2007, the Appear-Hide-Appear animations have about a one second delay between "Hide on next mouse click" and "Appear". In ppt 2000 there was no delay. In ppt 2007 there is a delay and this destroys the effect. I have tried everything I know and have talked to the first level of Microsoft Powerpoint technical support and they don't know how to fix this. The case is still open, but I am just going in a circular dance with them. I do know how to work-around this by creating many more sequential slides rather than relying on animations, but this would be very time consuming re-developing all of my presentations, and it would make all of my presentations much larger in file size. If there is not a fix, then I would have to make about 300 CD-R's to send to all of the technical trainers across North America with the corrected effects. This has become a nightmare for me. By the end of August, all employees are required to have made the transition from Office 2000 to Office 2007. Has anyone had to deal with this issue and discovered the fix? Dirt |
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Animation Appear-Hide-Appear sequence
Thanks for the response, Lucy.
The animations are not placeholders. In most cases, the animations are bmp images or they are text box-callout arrow groups. I tried creating completely new trial presentations in ppt2007 and saved them in the new pptx format with no difference in the timing. There are no gaps in the timeline that I can affect. The "appear" timing is set to 0 seconds, and the previous image effect is set to "Hide on next mouse click". This is what I've noticed: If I select to "Show advanced timeline" in the Custom Animation box, the timimg sequence is shown next to each animation with a triangle sitting on its corner with a tip pointing toward a vertical line which seems to represent the activation of the next animation. When I press "Play" to watch the animation sequence in the Custom Animation sidebar, the present animation stays visible until the "total timeline vertical bar" reaches the triangle base. When the timeline reaches the triangle base, the present animation disappears. After the vertical timeline bar reaches the triangle point, then the next animation appears. During the time that it takes the vertical timeline bar to traverse the triangle, all animations are turned off. This lasts about one second. If I could just make these blasted triangles disappear, my problem would be solved. I know there must be a way to do this, Neither I nor MS basic tech support can figure this out. Surely this effect wouldn't have been written out of the new version 2007. Did any of this make sense? I hope it did to you, because my sensibility is in serious doubt at this point. -- Dirt "Lucy Thomson" wrote: Hi Dirt Is this text in a placeholder or something else? If you look at the advanced animations timeline what do you see (are there gaps in the timeline, are things set to take more time than you want, etc)? Animations changed dramatically between 2000 and 2002 so I have seen issues when converting presentations... Unfortunately I don't have 2000 here to try & recreate the problem. But I'm sure we'll be able to come up with something to help :-) Lucy -- Lucy Thomson PowerPoint MVP MOS Master Instructor www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au "Dirt" wrote in message ... I have dozens of technical presentations developed with Powerpoint 2000. When imported into Powerpoint 2007, the Appear-Hide-Appear animations have about a one second delay between "Hide on next mouse click" and "Appear". In ppt 2000 there was no delay. In ppt 2007 there is a delay and this destroys the effect. I have tried everything I know and have talked to the first level of Microsoft Powerpoint technical support and they don't know how to fix this. The case is still open, but I am just going in a circular dance with them. I do know how to work-around this by creating many more sequential slides rather than relying on animations, but this would be very time consuming re-developing all of my presentations, and it would make all of my presentations much larger in file size. If there is not a fix, then I would have to make about 300 CD-R's to send to all of the technical trainers across North America with the corrected effects. This has become a nightmare for me. By the end of August, all employees are required to have made the transition from Office 2000 to Office 2007. Has anyone had to deal with this issue and discovered the fix? Dirt |
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Animation Appear-Hide-Appear sequence
Hi Dirt
First up, using the preview button doesn't work well for 'appear' animations or animations set to 'on mouse click' as appear is instantaneous and powerpoint does the mouse clicking for you - so it is better to watch them in slide show view. Next, I'm not sure exactly what you mean as I have a very small, slightly pickled brain. Can you send me a sample of the new pptx that you created so I can get my head around what you are describing? lucy @ aneasiertomorrow . com . au (remove the gaps). Lucy -- Lucy Thomson PowerPoint MVP MOS Master Instructor www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au "Dirt" wrote in message ... Thanks for the response, Lucy. The animations are not placeholders. In most cases, the animations are bmp images or they are text box-callout arrow groups. I tried creating completely new trial presentations in ppt2007 and saved them in the new pptx format with no difference in the timing. There are no gaps in the timeline that I can affect. The "appear" timing is set to 0 seconds, and the previous image effect is set to "Hide on next mouse click". This is what I've noticed: If I select to "Show advanced timeline" in the Custom Animation box, the timimg sequence is shown next to each animation with a triangle sitting on its corner with a tip pointing toward a vertical line which seems to represent the activation of the next animation. When I press "Play" to watch the animation sequence in the Custom Animation sidebar, the present animation stays visible until the "total timeline vertical bar" reaches the triangle base. When the timeline reaches the triangle base, the present animation disappears. After the vertical timeline bar reaches the triangle point, then the next animation appears. During the time that it takes the vertical timeline bar to traverse the triangle, all animations are turned off. This lasts about one second. If I could just make these blasted triangles disappear, my problem would be solved. I know there must be a way to do this, Neither I nor MS basic tech support can figure this out. Surely this effect wouldn't have been written out of the new version 2007. Did any of this make sense? I hope it did to you, because my sensibility is in serious doubt at this point. -- Dirt "Lucy Thomson" wrote: Hi Dirt Is this text in a placeholder or something else? If you look at the advanced animations timeline what do you see (are there gaps in the timeline, are things set to take more time than you want, etc)? Animations changed dramatically between 2000 and 2002 so I have seen issues when converting presentations... Unfortunately I don't have 2000 here to try & recreate the problem. But I'm sure we'll be able to come up with something to help :-) Lucy -- Lucy Thomson PowerPoint MVP MOS Master Instructor www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au "Dirt" wrote in message ... I have dozens of technical presentations developed with Powerpoint 2000. When imported into Powerpoint 2007, the Appear-Hide-Appear animations have about a one second delay between "Hide on next mouse click" and "Appear". In ppt 2000 there was no delay. In ppt 2007 there is a delay and this destroys the effect. I have tried everything I know and have talked to the first level of Microsoft Powerpoint technical support and they don't know how to fix this. The case is still open, but I am just going in a circular dance with them. I do know how to work-around this by creating many more sequential slides rather than relying on animations, but this would be very time consuming re-developing all of my presentations, and it would make all of my presentations much larger in file size. If there is not a fix, then I would have to make about 300 CD-R's to send to all of the technical trainers across North America with the corrected effects. This has become a nightmare for me. By the end of August, all employees are required to have made the transition from Office 2000 to Office 2007. Has anyone had to deal with this issue and discovered the fix? Dirt |
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