Animate PowerPoint tables

[Guest]

I am using Office XP SP3. If I import a table from Word or an Excel object
into Powerpoint, can I animate each cell of the table or each row separately?
It seems to work if you create a table within Powerpoint but not if you
import?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

A pasted Excel chart is a single object in the eyes of PowerPoint. In order
to animate parts of it, you will need to break up the whole into parts. So,
you will need to convert the object into a drawing object, then ungroup the
drawing object into its hundreds of components. You may want to regroup
sections of these to keep handing them easier.

You can then apply the animations to these regrouped objects. Unfortunately
there is a down side to using this ungrouping method. The object will no
longer update with the most current information once it has been converted
or ungrouped.

Hope this gets you started on the solution.

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[Glen Millar]

Hi,

What Bill said. And here's how:

http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/html/Complex_Animations.html

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com
Australia

Please, tell us your:
PowerPoint version,
If you are using vba, or
Anything else relevant!

 

[Guest]

I tried this and it did not seem to work. It works with other drawing
objects but didn't seem to work in Word or Excel into PowerPoint 2002

 

[Guest]

Hi Glen, thanks for the info, actually we use PowerPoint 2002 and it has some
great new functionality specific for charts so you don't have to go through
all that!!

Cheers,
RD

 

[Guest]

Ignore my previous reply Bill, I am loosing my mind today. That worked
great, thanks.

RD