How to Draw an Oval

[Andrea]

How can I create an animation in PowerPoint 2003 so that after a bulleted
sentence appears, an oval shape is drawn around one word?

 

[Guest]

Hi Andrea

Draw an oval around the word (no fill)
Give it an entrance animation of wheel and set the number of spokes to one.

Adjust the animation sequence so that it appears in the right place by
dragging the wheel animation in the custom animation pane

 

[Andrea]

Hi Andrea

Draw an oval around the word (no fill)
Give it an entrance animation of wheel and set the number of spokes to
one.

Adjust the animation sequence so that it appears in the right place by
dragging the wheel animation in the custom animation pane

That works really well, but I have two more questions! First, what do you
mean by dragging the wheel into the animation pane? In other words, doesn't
it need to stay on the slide? And second, is there a way to make this oval
look more like a pen forming the oval in a clockwise direction rather than
ending in a perfect oval?

 

[Guest]

"dragging the wheel" I just meant move its animation order to where you want
it to start.

You can get a draw effect by using the scribble tool in draw
menu>autoshapes>lines and then wheel animation
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[Andrea]

"dragging the wheel" I just meant move its animation order to where you
want it to start.

You can get a draw effect by using the scribble tool in draw
menu>autoshapes>lines and then wheel animation

I'm not finding that the scribble tool makes a very smooth oval outline. I
saw another PowerPoint presentation in which the oval appeared in a
clockwise direction but didn't end up completely closed. It was a nice
effect, and I'd like to duplicate it.

 

[Guest]

Go back to the oval idea place a small rectangle over the part you dont want
to see give it no line and background fill.
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