RE: I need to move out a previously moved in item in a slide show

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From: David M. Marcovitz (DavidMMarcovitz_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:34:22 -0700

I'm trying to remember the details of the original question, but I'll try to answer it with what I remember. If you were using PPT 2002 or above, you could simply use an exit animation. With PPT 2000, you have a few choices. I think the following will be the easiest:

Create the object for your slide up to the point where you want the object to move out. Make a duplicate of the slide. Now remove the object that you want to have disappear, and add any others that you want to add. On the original slide, set the animation for all the objects as you want them. On the duplicate slide, don't set the animation for any objects that are on the first slide (so they are all there when you arrive at the slide). Just set the animation for any newly added objects. Now, your animation should work by running through the first slide, jumping to the second slide (to remove the object), and running through the remaining animations on the second slide. You can even set a transition from the first slide to the second to have an animation effect (although you can't have the object fly out, but you can have it dissolve out).

A simpler alternative, depending how complex your graphics are, is to have animated to appear over the object that you want to disappear. This is fairly easy if the object is sitting over a simple background, so the object that covers up the disappearing object has that background. This will be much harder if the object is in front of other objects. You might check out:

http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/animtechnqs.aspx

to see some fancy examples of animation in PowerPoint 2000.

A third alternative is to use VBA to hide and show your objects, but you probably don't need to resort to that unless you have a lot of things that you want to make disappear, and you don't want to create a lot of slides.

--David

David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

"Aussie" wrote:

> Kathy,
> Thanks for your help, I am using PPT 2000 so I guess I
> need more help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Merv
>

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