I’m teaching using Apple’s Office 2004 and sometimes, it is killing me.
On PowerPoint 2004, you can add custom animations to the text on a slide. For my purposes here, let’s assume we are always adding animations to bullet point text.
I can not seem to determine with 100% certainty how to make PowerPoint decide whether to apply the animation to each point individually(have them come in separately) OR to have it apply it to the whole text. Online, I read that by selecting the entire text, it will make them come up individually. Selecting the text box itself is supposed to make the animation apply to the whole text box at once.
However, when I tried this with a student yesterday, it did not work. She had bullet points she wanted to present. She wants all her bullet points to “fly in” at once, instead of each upon clicking.
I selected the entire selection of text and applied an animation. It made them come in one at a time.
I deleted that animation. Then, I did not select text, but clicked on the border of the text box and selected “custom animation”. I then picked an animation.
**It still came in one at a time! **
How do I reliably control animations on PowerPoint 2004?
Thanks. It seems like kind of a pain to me. Is there a simpler way? Anyone know why sometimes I get it to make all the text one animation, while sometimes each line is assigned its own animation?
Maybe not any simpler, but in my mind the preferred way:
Select text box
Choose “Custom Animation”
Click “Add Effect…” (pick whichever you want).
Click “Effect Options…”
Click “Text Animation”
From the “Group text” drop down menu choose “As one object”
Click “OK”
Then, if you want this to be the animation behavior for all of your bulleted slides, simply duplicate this slide and change the text. No need to re-apply custom animation.
Nope, PPT 2004 for Mac. What do you see? There should be three buttons across the top of the Effet Options dialog: Effect, Timing and Text Animation. What animation are you trying to apply? Also, you need to make sure that you have selected a TEXT box and not some other PPT object. If you’re animating another kind of object it will only show Effect and Timing. It should also be noted that text animation will NOT work with TABLES.
