hi

Is there any way to animate the bullet points on several slides at a time?
Every time I select more than 1 slide, the animation option in the animations
group becomes inactive. In 2003 you could do this in slide sorter view, I
can't find an alternative method.

Thanks in anticipation

Diane

I don't recall being able to do this is slide sorter view in PPT 2003, but I
could be mistaken -- maybe it was possible because of the custom animation
schemes? At any rate, custom animation schemes are no longer available in
PPT 2007, but you can add the animation to the placeholder in your slide
master. It's under View | Slide Master.

If you only want this on some slides, you'll want to create a separate
master and apply that to those slides. Go to slide master view, right-click
the slide master and duplicate it. You'll also probably want to rename it to
"animated master" or something like that. Apply the animation to the
duplicate, close out of master view, then go to the Home tab and change the
layout (next to the New Slide button) of the various slides to one of the
layouts with the animation.

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"DianeG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:77995F90-6C8C-4BF6-B23E-(E-Mail Removed)...
> hi
>
> Is there any way to animate the bullet points on several slides at a time?
> Every time I select more than 1 slide, the animation option in the
> animations
> group becomes inactive. In 2003 you could do this in slide sorter view, I
> can't find an alternative method.
>
> Thanks in anticipation
>
> Diane

Thanks very much for the response. I used to select multiple slides in slide
sorter view in Powerpoint 2003 and then apply a build. It applied the same
text effects to selected slides.

I'll try the master slide route for this version although it seems a lot
more long winded!!


regards

Diane

"Echo S" wrote:

> I don't recall being able to do this is slide sorter view in PPT 2003, but I
> could be mistaken -- maybe it was possible because of the custom animation
> schemes? At any rate, custom animation schemes are no longer available in
> PPT 2007, but you can add the animation to the placeholder in your slide
> master. It's under View | Slide Master.
>
> If you only want this on some slides, you'll want to create a separate
> master and apply that to those slides. Go to slide master view, right-click
> the slide master and duplicate it. You'll also probably want to rename it to
> "animated master" or something like that. Apply the animation to the
> duplicate, close out of master view, then go to the Home tab and change the
> layout (next to the New Slide button) of the various slides to one of the
> layouts with the animation.
>
> --
> Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
> What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
> Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
> PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx
>
>
> "DianeG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:77995F90-6C8C-4BF6-B23E-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > hi
> >
> > Is there any way to animate the bullet points on several slides at a time?
> > Every time I select more than 1 slide, the animation option in the
> > animations
> > group becomes inactive. In 2003 you could do this in slide sorter view, I
> > can't find an alternative method.
> >
> > Thanks in anticipation
> >
> > Diane
>
>