Controllable 'Motion Paths' were introduced in PowerPoint 2002. They allow
for variable paths and speeds.
Unfortunately, with 2000 you are not able to control this speed, but ...
(Don't you just love when there is a but?)
You can use this code (see below) I posted a little while back to allow a
user to add a small VBA routine that, when clicked on, starts crawling
across the screen to the left. The steps to apply this code are:
1) select the code text from on your screen & copy it
2) Open your PowerPoint presentation.
3) Press Alt+F11 (the alt key next to the space bar and the F11 key at the
same time). This opens the VBE or Visual Basic Editor
4) Paste the code onto the VBE
5) Close the VBE window
6) Select the text box of you want to scroll to the slide
7) Right click and select Action settings
8) On the Mouse Click tab,under the Run Macro, select "MoveLeft"
9) Position the text box to the right of the slide, keeping just a small bit
visible to click on.
10) Run the presentation.
Whenever you get to the slide with the slow text crawl, click on the little
bit showing on the right edge of the slide. It will move across the slide,
slowly until it is completely off to the left (then snap back to it's
original position.).
If you need help adding it into your presentation, post back and we'll walk
you through any problems.
Sub MoveLeft(oShp As Shape)
Dim StartPos As Integer
With oShp
StartPos = .Left
Do While .Left + .Width > 0
.Left = .Left - 1
DoEvents
'Insert Delay Loop Here
Loop
.Left = StartPos
End With
End Sub
Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP
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