Powerpoint Presentation - Timings

[EliseFreedman]

Hi There

Im working on a presentation in Powerpoint 2003. The presentation consists of 30+ slides. They all contain bullet points. I would like the bullet points to come up one after the other preferably where I can click the mouse to get the next bullet point to display. I have played about with the animations, timings etc but seem to be getting nowhere.

Can anyone help

 

[ozzroo]

Hi EliseFreedman

Have you tried highlighting each bullet point individually and creating a custom animation on each bullet point.

This should make them animate independently

 

[kjv1611]

Do you have each bullet point stored in a separate element, or all in the same? It may be easier to accomplish a one by one transition like you are talking about if they are each in their own element/text box.

 

[EliseFreedman]

Ive tried that but they all still just come in automatically. Ideally, I would like to be able to control the display of the bullet points so that the next one doesnt get displayed until I am just about finished talking about the current one

 

[ozzroo]

How are you inserting your bullet points?

Use the Draw toolbar and insert a textbox.
Then click on the insert bullet points icon.
Type in your bullet points.
Then highlight one bullet point and animate it
Then hightlight the next bullet point and animate it
and so on....

Put them all into the same textbox

 

[combo]

Look at slide transition settings - if set to timed, powerpoint automatically runs (with frequency depending on transition timing) mouse/keyboard triggered animations too.
Try to set mouse click to slide transition (or no trigger, with next slide action button).

combo

 

[ThePumpkin]

Hi

There is another way to do this without having to separate your bullet points.

If you go to Custom Animation, select your effect. Under MODIFY make sure that ON CLICK is selected. A list of the bullet points will appear beneath (if you can only see the first one, click on the drop down arrow underneath it). You can then modify the effect/timings etc for each bullet point.

For each bullet point, click on the arrow on the left for the drop-down menu, select EFFECT OPTIONS. Then on the TEXT ANIMATION tab for the GROUP TEXT option choose BY 1ST LEVEL PARAGRAPH. This should animate each bullet point separately on the mouse click.

Please note that if you just preview/play it the animation doesn't appear to work but if you check it in actual Slide Show mode it does work properly.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Karen

 

[kjv1611]

I appologize.

ThePumpkin,

If you notice, I was the only one who suggested to put them in separate boxes, everyone else suggested keeping the bullets all in one box.

Makes sense, really.

<Silly Toupet>
I keep all my bullets of like-kind in the same box at my house. [grin]
</Silly Toupet>

{Insert theme to the Three Stooges here}

[LOL]

<Sitting in Corner Wearing Dunce Hat>