PowerPoint - animate from right to left

Factual Questions
1

I suspect this might be one of those really obvious things with the solution staring me in the face, but…

How can I get PowerPoint to animate from right-to-left instead of the default left-to-right? I tried playing around with custom animations, but no dice.

Here’s what I’d like to do:

I have several slides composed of text bullets on the left and a diagram on the right. The way PP seems to want to do things is to animate the text first, then the diagram last. I want the diagram to appear on the right first, then the bullet text items to appear on the left, but can’t find any way to do it.

I guess I could put the diagrams on the left, but I’m stubborn.

2

When you do a custom animation, you should be able to specify a specific sequence of events. Drag the bullet animation down after the picture animation and make it happen either after a specific amount of time or a mouseclick.

Is that what you’re asking?

ETA: Here’s a demo if you need it (download it instead of viewing it online).

3

Not sure. I can see the effect I want is possible, but I can’t really tell from that demo how to do it. I’ll study it some more tonight. Thanks!

4

Yep. It shouldn’t be too hard once you start fiddling with the Custom Animations pane. Microsoft has a web tutorial on the same subject (for 2003, but 2007 works the same way).

5

(This is 2003). In custom animation, I use fly-in as the effect. Then there is the option of “direction” where you can make this change.

6

When I still had my fishing boat, I came to assume that all fish are leftists. On the screen of my depth finder/fish locator, all the fish swam to the left.