Define a name for a group of objects.

[418928]

Hi everybody,

I think it's not possible, as I cannot find any information about it...
but, anyway, anyone knows how a group of objects can be assigned a
certain name? This would facilitate animations a lot, as you would be
able to know which element is the one being animated very easily
(instead of just seeing "Group 21", "Group 2", etc., which has very
little meaning for the programmer).

Thanks in advance,

S.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

I second this suggestion

TAJ

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi everybody,

I think it's not possible, as I cannot find any information about it...
but, anyway, anyone knows how a group of objects can be assigned a
certain name? This would facilitate animations a lot, as you would be
able to know which element is the one being animated very easily
(instead of just seeing "Group 21", "Group 2", etc., which has very
little meaning for the programmer).

You can assign a group a name just as you can with any other shape but
unfortunately, PowerPoint doesn't USE the .Name property in the animation
dialog boxes.

If you mean "programmer" in the VBA sense, then naming a shape or group of
shapes is perfectly workable.

 

[Guest]

Yes please!!!!

I sometimes use this workaround in complex animation screens. Add to each
shape text describing the shape (eg "left eye", whatever) make the text
invisible by choosing the same text colour as the fill colour. Now when you
look in custom animation the "shape description will appear!

 

[418928]

Thanks for the suggestions. However, I don't completely understand your
workaround. I insert a box autoshape, write text in it and then I try
to animate the shape... And the text I wrote doesn't appear in the
animation window.

On the other hand, I would need to do this with images. I tried to
group a text box and an image and it doesn't work either.

S.

 

[Guest]

It should (I should have said this is for shapes not groups though) is your
custom animation pane wide enough to show the name as a narrow pane will cut
it off??
It should appear as eg oval 3 : eyeball