Problem with Excel objects being blurry after custom animation

Hello,

I have a problem with pasting for example sections of an Excel
worksheet into a PowerPoint slide. The problem is not with the pasting
itself, but rather with subsequently adding custom transitions to the
pasted section. When I add a transition to the object, such as “fly
in,” then either the whole picture, or sections of it (such as the top
row) become visibly thicker or blurry, almost as if the font was bold.
When I preview the transition, this goes away after the preview ends.
However, this effect remains in the presentation mode. As a result,
the slides with especially small numbers/letters don’t look sharp. I
have tried several ways of pasting the object into PowerPoint,
including pasting as an excel object and as both windows and enhanced
metafile, but this doesn’t change anything. The only way to avoid this
is to paste it as a bitmap file, but then it doesn’t look so sharp.

I had a similar problem a while ago, but with text boxes, but was
somehow able to get rid of it, but, unfortunately, cannot duplicate my
success with pasting the sections of Excel.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
John

I'm afraid there's no good solution for this. Only actual solution I know
of -- and it's really a workaround -- is to ungroup the object and animate
the pieces. Of course, do this on a copy of the slide/object so you can get
back to the original if necessary. If you're using PPT 2007, you may need to
cut the object and Paste Special as EMF in order to ungroup it.

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Hello,

I have a problem with pasting for example sections of an Excel
worksheet into a PowerPoint slide. The problem is not with the pasting
itself, but rather with subsequently adding custom transitions to the
pasted section. When I add a transition to the object, such as “fly
in,” then either the whole picture, or sections of it (such as the top
row) become visibly thicker or blurry, almost as if the font was bold.
When I preview the transition, this goes away after the preview ends.
However, this effect remains in the presentation mode. As a result,
the slides with especially small numbers/letters don’t look sharp. I
have tried several ways of pasting the object into PowerPoint,
including pasting as an excel object and as both windows and enhanced
metafile, but this doesn’t change anything. The only way to avoid this
is to paste it as a bitmap file, but then it doesn’t look so sharp.

I had a similar problem a while ago, but with text boxes, but was
somehow able to get rid of it, but, unfortunately, cannot duplicate my
success with pasting the sections of Excel.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
John