Re: Got it!
- From: "Echo S" <echos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:27:25 -0500
Ahhhh. Nice detective work!
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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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"Linda Adams" <LindaAdams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I discovered what I did differently.
>
> Try inserting a text box, typing in some text. Then highlight the text
> (instead of selecting the text box) and do the animation. The third tab
> disappears when you do this.
>
> Evidently, I kept trying to do the animation by highlighting the text
> instead of selecting the box, but when I went to page layout I selected
> the
> text box.
>
> --
> Linda Adams
> http://www.hackman-adams.com
> http://www.david-hedison.com
>
>
> "Echo S" wrote:
>
>> Which version of PPT are you using? In PPT 2003, I get a "text animation"
>> tab in the Effect Options no matter if it's a placeholder (what you get
>> when
>> you use a slide layout), a manual textbox, or a regular autoshape (like
>> an
>> oval or rectangle) with text typed in.
>>
>> --
>> Echo [MS PPT MVP]
>> http://www.echosvoice.com
>>
>> "Linda Adams" <LindaAdams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:17ECD26D-CAD7-47E2-B6CE-0BFD06F85378@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I was trying out animation for text and discovered that if I use the
>> >Page
>> > Layout for the text, on the animation properties dialog box I get an
>> > extra
>> > tab called Text Animation with some additional features. However, if I
>> > just
>> > insert a text box on the slide, this tab isn't there. In my case, I
>> > was
>> > trying to duplicate someone's animation, and I couldn't figure out why
>> > I
>> > wasn't getting the additional tab. To add to the confusion, I looked
>> > it
>> > up
>> > in the online help. It does NOT refer to needing a page layout to
>> > getting
>> > this extra Text Animation tab. It simply starts talking about the tab,
>> > so
>> > a
>> > user trying to figure out how to do something is going to be terribly
>> > confused if they don't see it.
>> >
>> > It seems to me that if it's text, it should get the same dialog boxes
>> > across
>> > the board whether it's part of a page layout or a text box. If not,
>> > then
>> > the
>> > help should be at least update to indicate that the user will only see
>> > this
>> > extra tab if they are using animation in conjuction with a page layout
>> > and
>> > will not see it for just a text box.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Linda Adams
>> > http://www.hackman-adams.com
>> > http://www.david-hedison.com
>> >
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