"scrolling text" animation in ppt

[slyve]

Hi,

I have a a slide in one of my presentations which has the names of companies listed in 2 columns. I would like to make them scroll from below the screen, upwards and disappear into the top, in the order of the first two companies in the same row, then the next two and so on.

ex. If I have,
ABC DEF
GHI JKL

I want ABC DEF to scroll up from the bottom and out of the top, followed by GHI JKL. Is there some way I can make this animation happen? I use Win 200o and Powerpoint 2000.

Thanks.

 

[DreamerZ]

Take a look at the Custom Animation from the Slide Show menu. I used the "Entrance: Fly In" effect and set it "From the Bottom" and "Slow Speed." Then if you start "After Previous" then you can alternate the text. Each Company name might have to be a different text box to make what you want work.



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[slyve]

Hi,

Thanks, I already tried that. The effect I am trying get is like that of how the credits appear the end of a movie, how the cast of characters scroll from below and disappear into the top.

With the "Fly in" option, it flies in from the bottom but then stays on the screen.

Thanks.

 

[DreamerZ]

When you do the effect, change the effect options, after animation from "Don't Dim" to the background color. For example, if the background is white, the "After Animation" in the effects option should be set to white. The text will in effect disappear. Put the text at the top of the slide and it will look like the credits you're looking for.



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[DreamerZ]

Better yet, position the text off the top of the slide to have it go off before it dims.

That's not going to work if you want to print the slide so you may want a duplicate for handout purposes.


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[slyve]

Thanks again. In fact, there is another option under the "after animation" that says "hide after animation" which is great. But there is an issue. The second line doesnt appear until the first line disappears(which means, at a time, there is just one line of text on the screen), kind of not in sync with the credits idea. Anything else I can try?

 

[DreamerZ]

I'm using PP 2002, so hopefully it's setup the same as 2000. I changed the timing for the subsequent animations to "With Previous." Then, I adjusted the delay to look good. The first one was 0, the second was 1 second, third was 2 seconds, etc.

It went credit-like.



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[TheOldMan346]

Depending on your version of PowerPoint, there is a "credits" animation scheme which will do exactly what you want. Search Help for "animation".

Hope that helps.

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The Old Man

 

[DreamerZ]

LOL! 2002 has it. I didn't even see it.

Thx, OldMan! Hopefully it's in 2002 for slyve.


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[slyve]

Thanks so much to all of you. Yes, I figured I could use the "credits" animation which is available only in Office XP. But the other problem was that though the animation was set for a particular text bex (with a separate text box for the title), the lines went out of the entire slide, scrolling over the title too, instead of disappearing at the point where the textbox boundary ends.
(Hope I explained that right!)

Anyway, my boss decided to just slap the text in without any animation, but I just thought I would share this with you.