Bullet Point Animation Fade in issue

[Matt]

Hi,

I have set up my bullet points to fade in (1st one 'on previous event'
remaining points on same page 'on click') This all works fine on my first
page - none of the bullet points are present at all (except the automatic
first one) and they appear from nothing to black as they should one by one
when I click.

Slide two and the remaining slides however have all of the bullet points and
sentences present on screen in light grey. When I click they then solidify
into black (this solidify to black part is obviously correct). How do I
prevent the words from appearing in light grey until they are needed - I dont
want my viewers reading forward, apart from my 'on previous event' first
bullet point the rest of the screen should be blank until I click for the
second/third/fourth etc bullet point.

Thanks,
Matt

 

[John Wilson]

Is it possible the later slides were prepared in 2003 or earlier and are
being played in 2007?

If so check there is no shape shadow attached to the text placeholder.

 

[Matt]

Hi John,

Thanks very much for the advice. The presentation is brand new in PPT2007 so
it wasn't your first idea but your advice did point me in the right direction
- I had somehow managed to attach a shadow effect to the text box and the
text itself. I pressume the light grey wording I could see was the shadow for
the text box.

Thanks very much, really appreciate the help.

Kind regards,
Matt

 

[John Wilson]

If you know (!!) I'd be interested in how you managed this. AFAIK it's
normally only a problem when the original file came from earlier versions
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