custom animation question

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dee

Hi,

I use ppt 2003. Often, I create a text box, animate it, then create other
text boxes to animate on top of it. Hard to explain but...Is there a way to
edit the bottom text box, without physically moving the ones on top out of
the way? Hope someone understands what I am asking?
thanks in advance
dee
 
I use ppt 2003. Often, I create a text box, animate it, then create other
text boxes to animate on top of it. Hard to explain but...Is there a way to
edit the bottom text box, without physically moving the ones on top out of
the way? Hope someone understands what I am asking?
thanks in advance
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You can use TAB to cycle through all of the shapes on your slides.
When the one you want is selected:

- Choose Edit, Text Object from the main menu bar or
- Right-Click on the OUTLINE of the text box and choose Edit Text from the
popup menu

Either method will highlight the text in the selected text box for editing.

Another approach that might be a little less clumsy is to tab until the one you
want is selected then press the right arrow key a couple of times. Edit to
taste then select the shape again and press the left arrow key the same number
of times.

The Accessibility Assistant that's part of our free PPT2HTML demo has a few
neat tricks that make it simpler to get at a single shape out of a whole stack
of them. http://ppt2html.pptools.com
 
yep, that's so much easier, thanks!
dee
Steve Rindsberg said:
You can use TAB to cycle through all of the shapes on your slides.
When the one you want is selected:

- Choose Edit, Text Object from the main menu bar or
- Right-Click on the OUTLINE of the text box and choose Edit Text from the
popup menu

Either method will highlight the text in the selected text box for
editing.

Another approach that might be a little less clumsy is to tab until the
one you
want is selected then press the right arrow key a couple of times. Edit
to
taste then select the shape again and press the left arrow key the same
number
of times.

The Accessibility Assistant that's part of our free PPT2HTML demo has a
few
neat tricks that make it simpler to get at a single shape out of a whole
stack
of them. http://ppt2html.pptools.com



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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