Chart Animations

[Guest]

I have a 2002 PowerPoint presentation that has an animated GIF which won't work in 2003. It doesn't animate at all. SO I am trying to recreate the Chart using Microsoft Graph and then animating the bars - just two bars - very simple chart but I can't get it to animate at all. It will only animate the whole chart. The only option that comes up is As whole object instead of each bar. What is the problem - is there really that much difference between 2002 & 2003.
Thanks
Sue John

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Animated gifs will run one less loop in 2003 due to some Office wide thing
(or so I believe) than they are set to. If you can re-edit your gif to
animate one extra time, like twice <g>, it may help. As for better control
over chart animations, one option (if you have the time to muck with it) is
to bust it into parts. Details here:

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

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
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I have a 2002 PowerPoint presentation that has an animated GIF which won't

work in 2003. It doesn't animate at all. SO I am trying to recreate the
Chart using Microsoft Graph and then animating the bars - just two bars -
very simple chart but I can't get it to animate at all. It will only
animate the whole chart. The only option that comes up is As whole object
instead of each bar. What is the problem - is there really that much
difference between 2002 & 2003.

 

[Guest]

What Glen said.

If you want to try editing the header info on the GIF to set it to run one more time, see http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/autorun_giftoavi.htm for a list of GIF editing software.

As for the chart animations, you should be able to animate single bars, but it will depend on a combination of what animation effect you've chosen and what type of chart you've created. Wipes are pretty flexible -- they usually allow you to animate by series or category, which is what I think you want. So you might try some different animations.